"History will be kind to me,
for I intend to write it."
-- British wartime hero Winston Churchill (1874-1965), on a long-standing philosophy about history that explains how today's citizen journalists are re-writing this, one post at a time.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Victors | Your posts are changing history, 24/7
-- British wartime hero Winston Churchill (1874-1965), on a long-standing philosophy about history that explains how today's citizen journalists are re-writing this, one post at a time.
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Most people don't know this but Churchill paid his bills as a working journalist and author. He had a syndicated column that ran in papers throughout Europe. As Nazi Germany extended there influence in the 1930's Churchill lost clients and income as papers on the continent dropped his column to avoid Nazi retaliation or in cases where the Germans took over a country the papers were ordered to drop him. This caused severe financial problems for Churchill and it took several wealthy frinds to support him in the 1930's so that he could remain in opposition to the appeasers.
ReplyDelete"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
ReplyDelete--Winston Churchill