Article: Wilbert Tatum was a newspaper publisher who made his mark with imaginary news: His Harlem-based New York Amsterdam News played a key role in furthering the Tawana Brawley hoax.(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)

Wilbert Tatum was a newspaper publisher who made his mark with imaginary news: His Harlem-based New York Amsterdam News played a key role in furthering the Tawana Brawley hoax. Ignoring emergent facts, Tatum exploited the tall tale for inflammatory purposes well past the time when its fraudulence was debatable. Married to a Jewish refugee, he nonetheless trafficked opportunistically in anti-Semitic paranoia, explaining Sen. Joseph Lieberman's vice-presidential nomination as an appeal to ...

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