Gringo Propagandist: George F. Weeks and the Mexican Revolution

From: Journalism History | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

During the Mexican Revolution, no U.S. journalist maintained as close or as enduring relations with revolutionary leader as a former California newspaperman, George F. Weeks. Between 1913 and 1920, he was the principal publicist for Venustiano Carranza's Constitutionalist regime, directing the Mexican Bureau of Information and founding and editing the Mexican Review/Revista Mexicana, a bilingual magazine that promoted Mexican interests in the United States. He employed techniques that conform to the public-information model of communications, and his activities reflected the practice and ...

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