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This paper examines how the press influenced
decisions made at the
Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Using the sociological theory of a society
shaped by the media and exploring the ways in which journalistic
bias defined the events surrounding the end of the Great War, the paper
concludes that newspaper accounts, and the perspectives that
journalists created to support the necessity of war, helped to define the
viewpoints and attitudes of American, French and British societies at
the conclusion of hostilities. The presence of
the press, and the secretive influence offered by the participating
politicians, doomed the Conference to operate within the realm of
censorship, with the resulting secret negotiations determining the context of the final
peace treaties.
Dino DelGallo, Sam Houston State University
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