Newspapers are supposed to give us an unbiased factual report of these events, but that isn t always the case.
Newspapers can make certain events seem more important and more consequential than other events.
This happened during the Palmer Raids of the early 1920 s. Newspapers made the Palmer Raids more prevalent and Anti-Communist feelings stronger among the American public during the 1920 s. To understand how the media escalated the Red Scare and Palmer Raids it helps to have a brief history of them. After World War I there was a Red Scare among many Americans. When Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer s home was bombed he immediately believed it was the Communists and went after all of them.