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I came across this story in Ben Bagdikian’s book earlier this year, and found it unsurprisingly shocking. It includes this addendum:
“The books were destroyed; McCaleb and his staff resigned. Warner Communications sold Warner Modular to another firm and the small subsidiary disappeared shortly thereafter. When I wrote to Sarnoff asking if McCaleb’s account coincided with his I received a one-word answer: “No!” He did not answer my request to elaborate.
It was five years later that Sarnoff attended the press conference in Atlanta and heard Harold Roth, president of Grosset & Dunlap, publisher of Warner’s Nixon book, telling reporters in obvious sincerity that ‘if we abridge the freedom of any one writer or publisher we effectively abridge the freedom of all’ and that points of view ‘should not be censored because of one’s political persuasion.’”
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