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==Hiss in the mass media==

==Hiss in the mass media==

So broad is this consensus that it has begun to penetrate even the popular press: By the time he died in 1996, "the front-page obits... in such supposed bastions of the liberal establishment as the ''New York Times'', the ''Washington Post'', and the ''Boston Globe'' were striking in their dispassionate acceptance of [http://www.salon.com/media/media961119.html Hiss's guilt]," observed [http://www.northeastern.edu/journalism/contact/kennedy.html Northeastern University Journalism Professor] Dan Kennedy. Indeed, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/books/review/29POWERSL.html?pagewanted=print no serious cold war historian]," reports [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-is-the-new-york-times-a-liberal-newspaper.html the liberal]<ref>As ''USA Today'' founder Al Neuharth observed in 2000, the ''Times'' had endorsed [http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/big-papers-endorsed-gore/ every Democrat] for president for the previous 40 years (Update: Make that the past [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/timeline/kerry-2004.pdf 52] [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24fri1.html years]) (Update 2: [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/barack-obama-for-president.html?pagewanted=all 56 years]).</ref> ''Times'', now questions "that Hiss lied"; “[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/05/29/ST2009052902500.html most students of the Hiss case], including many erstwhile defenders, consider him guilty,” agrees the similarly liberal<ref>As ''USA Today'' publisher Al Neuharth observed in 2000, the ''Post'' endorses [http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/big-papers-endorsed-gore/ only Democrats for president] ([http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57584-2004Oct23.html This pattern] has [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603436.html since] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-post-endorsement-four-more-years-for-president-obama/2012/10/25/6ca309a2-1965-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html continued]). ''Washington Post'' ombudsman Debra Howell writes, "the conservatives I know here feel [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403057.html so outnumbered] that they don't even want to be quoted by name in a memo."</ref> ''Washington Post'',<ref>Chambers called the ''Post'' "the most implacable of the pro-Hiss newspapers." (Whittaker Chambers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HKLbhAG8ma4C Witness]'' (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1987) ISBN 0895267896, p. 710) "The ''Post'' seemed to redouble its pro-Hiss efforts as his innocence became increasingly doubtful." Marvin Olasky, "[http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14220 The Chambers-Hiss case]," ''World Magazine'', July 26, 2008</ref> adding that "the scholarly consensus" is "that Hiss was almost certainly guilty of both perjury and espionage"; the ''Globe'' concludes that Hiss's guilt is a "[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8396475.html near-certainty]." Even Hiss's hometown newspaper, ''The Baltimore Sun'', where his older brother Bosley had been a reporter, admitted: "[http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-03-09/features/1996069051_1_alger-hiss-hiss-case-perjury Most historians] are convinced of his guilt."

So broad is this consensus that it has begun to penetrate even the popular press: By the time he died in 1996, "the front-page obits... in such supposed bastions of the liberal establishment as the ''New York Times'', the ''Washington Post'', and the ''Boston Globe'' were striking in their dispassionate acceptance of [http://www.salon.com/media/media961119.html Hiss's guilt]," observed [http://www.northeastern.edu/journalism/contact/kennedy.html Northeastern University Journalism Professor] Dan Kennedy. Indeed, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/books/review/29POWERSL.html?pagewanted=print no serious cold war historian]," reports [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/the-public-editor-is-the-new-york-times-a-liberal-newspaper.html the liberal]<ref>As ''USA Today'' founder Al Neuharth observed in 2000, the ''Times'' had endorsed [http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/big-papers-endorsed-gore/ every Democrat] for president for the previous 40 years (Update: Make that the past [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/timeline/kerry-2004.pdf 52] [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24fri1.html years]) (Update 2: [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/barack-obama-for-president.html?pagewanted=all 56 years]).</ref> ''Times'', now questions "that Hiss lied" (Elsewhere, the ''Times'' reports "the trend of scholarship on the Hiss case in the 1990's -- a [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html growing consensus] that Hiss, indeed, had most likely been a Soviet agent"); “[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/05/29/ST2009052902500.html most students of the Hiss case], including many erstwhile defenders, consider him guilty,” agrees the similarly liberal<ref>As ''USA Today'' publisher Al Neuharth observed in 2000, the ''Post'' endorses [http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/big-papers-endorsed-gore/ only Democrats for president] ([http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57584-2004Oct23.html This pattern] has [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603436.html since] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/washington-post-endorsement-four-more-years-for-president-obama/2012/10/25/6ca309a2-1965-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html continued]). ''Washington Post'' ombudsman Debra Howell writes, "the conservatives I know here feel [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111403057.html so outnumbered] that they don't even want to be quoted by name in a memo."</ref> ''Washington Post'',<ref>Chambers called the ''Post'' "the most implacable of the pro-Hiss newspapers." (Whittaker Chambers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HKLbhAG8ma4C Witness]'' (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1987) ISBN 0895267896, p. 710) "The ''Post'' seemed to redouble its pro-Hiss efforts as his innocence became increasingly doubtful." Marvin Olasky, "[http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14220 The Chambers-Hiss case]," ''World Magazine'', July 26, 2008</ref> adding that "the scholarly consensus" is "that Hiss was almost certainly guilty of both perjury and espionage"; the ''Globe'' concludes that Hiss's guilt is a "[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8396475.html near-certainty]." Even Hiss's hometown newspaper, ''The Baltimore Sun'', where his older brother Bosley had been a reporter, admitted: "[http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-03-09/features/1996069051_1_alger-hiss-hiss-case-perjury Most historians] are convinced of his guilt."

===The foreign press on Hiss===

===The foreign press on Hiss===