Comments from Mary Dery

File includes fax correspondence with Noam Chomsky about the concept of culture jamming and his critique of it.

Comments from Mark Dery The newsmedia’s historical tendency to, at times, play fast and loose with fact versus falsehood—an issue of concern to culture jammers and one that some sociopolitical satirists and media activists use the tactic of the media hoax to expose—is documented in the articles in this file. File contents include: H.L. Mencken on “the synthesis”—fabrication—“of news”; NYT book review of “the falsification of photographs” in Stalin’s Russia, together with related article, “Altering Reality: Potential for Evil, the Power to Sell”; NYT book review about Bruno Bettelheim’s self-invention; NYT story, “Kennedy Quotes in New Book Are Invented”; NYT article on the extent to which Ruth Orkin’s famous photo “of a girl running a gantlet of Italian men” was partly staged; NYT review and news article addressing fictionalized “facts” in Reagan memoir; “Magazine Dismisses Writer Accused of Hoax” (NYT), about Stephen Glass scandal exposed by fellow journalist Adam...