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Americans current trust in journalists is at a dismayingly low ebb particularly on the subject of national and international politics It might be tempting to look back to the midtwentieth century when the nations press corps was a seemingly venerable and monolithic institution that conveyed the official line from Washington with nary a glint of antipatriotic cynicism As Kathryn McGarrs City of Newsmen shows however the real story of what Cold Warera journalists did and how they did it wasnt exactly the one youd find in the morning papers