John R. MacArthur

John R. MacArthur ( born June 4, 1956 in New York City ) is an American journalist.

MacArthur grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and fame in 1978 the degree of BA in history at Columbia College. He was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal ( 1977), the Washington Star (1978), Bergen Record ( 1978-1979 ), the Chicago Sun-Times ( 1979-1982 ), and assistant to the Leiteres foreign correspondent at United Press International (1982 ).

In 1983 he was president and publisher of Harper 's Magazine. In 1993 he received the Mencken Award for best comment for its unveiling at the New York Times about " Nayirah ", the daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat who told the propaganda lie in the human rights committee of the U.S. Senate in tears that she had experienced as an eyewitness, as Iraqi soldiers Kuwaiti babies were thrown out of incubators.

John R. MacArthur wrote the book Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War ( 1992) - German Title: The Battle of lies - and The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy ( 2000) - in German: the sale of "free trade ": NAFTA, Washington and the subversion of American democracy.

MacArthur lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.