Sarah Paine

So those pictures go away.

All references to those people go away and they're no longer in the index.

And Edgar Snow goes along with this.

And for the rest of his life, he is publishing books that are variation on a theme on this book.

So it's the only thing that makes him important.

No, Mao wanted him, it was right when Nixon was reopening China, Mao desperately wanted Edgar Snow to cover that.

And Edgar Snow got pancreatic cancer and he was living in Switzerland.

He'd run in trouble with the McCarthy era, as you can well imagine, for good reasons actually.

And so Mao sends his personal physician or something to attend to Edgar Snow, but pancreatic cancer still kills and it killed him.

So no, and this was, even though people Edgar Snow knew had been purged during these various campaigns and also the Great Famine, he denied all of it till the very end.

Because this is what made him important.

And so that's what he was to the end of his life.

Me, me, me, me, me.

Like a tweet.

I think it's, if you're talking about someone who has no power, the one thing they've got are words.

And so this is how, it turns out,

strategic communication or whatever the jargon is for it is terribly important.

And we're finding it now, right?

We're wondering on what is actually fake news?

What's disinformation?