John Reed: A reporter in revolutionary Mexico

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

Americans tend to not understand social revolutions because their experience after 1776 was largely political. Thus, U.S. news accounts of the fighting which broke out in Mexico in 1910 considered the conflict as simply another exuberant Latin American coup d'etat, this time to end the thirty-six-year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. But the military phase of the Mexican revolution lasted almost a decade, claimed a million lives, and seasoned a young writer named John Reed. His graphic dispatches to the New York World as well as radical publications drew praise from some for his vivid writing-a ...

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