Talk:Edward Hunter (U.S. journalist)

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This article is warranted by the fact that Hunter popularized the term "brainwashing" in American English in the 1950s. It also is worthy of inclusion because of his life as an instance of journalists moonlighting as intelligence agents (or, depending on one's POV, intelligence operatives moonlighting as journalists). SlavicatAJE (talk) 22:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Hunter testified before the House Un-American Affairs Committee in the 1950s. He is also significant as the collector of a large number of Chinese "comic" books from the late 1940s and early 1950s, comics which were geared toward brainwashing a largely illiterate population; thus this article will provide some background for several existing articles on brainwashing, propaganda, mass manipulation, and Project Mockingbird. SlavicatAJE (talk) 22:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reliable sources

Are there no sources more reliable than this guy's own testimony before HUAC? --Orange Mike | Talk 19:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

The search for better sources continues ... is this the reason for the NPOV tag? SlavicatAJE (talk) 22:43, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Yup. NPOV and HUAC just don't go together well. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)