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Press Box Propaganda? the Cold War and Sports Illustrated, 1956
Academic journal article from Journal of American Culture (Malden, MA), Vol. 26, No. 3
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Sports Illustrated, one of the premier sports journals and widely noted for its professional objectivity, did not escape the influence of the Cold War. As the evidence presented in this article will indicate, Sports Illustrated's reporting in 1956 conveyed typical Cold War bias, markedly and unobjectively favoring the values of the United States and Capitalism and disfavoring those of the USSR and Communism. The goal of this article is to document and take the dimensions of that bias and to offer an explanation as to why this Cold War phenomenon linking politics, sports, and journalism occurred.
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