Everything about The Spotlight totally explained
» For the community newspapers in Upstate New York, see Spotlight Newspapers.
The Spotlight was a weekly
newspaper in the United States, published from 1975 to 2001 by a now-defunct organization called
Liberty Lobby.
The Spotlight ran articles and editorials professing a
populist political orientation, aimed at audiences across the political spectrum.
A 1979 article published in
The Spotlight by
Victor Marchetti sparked a defamation lawsuit against Liberty Lobby from former
CIA agent
E. Howard Hunt because the article implicated Hunt as being involved in the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy. Lawyer and conspiracy author
Mark Lane successfully defended Liberty Lobby against the defamation charges.
Circulation of
The Spotlight peaked in the early 1980s at around 200,000, when it was the largest-circulation periodical on the far right in the United States. Circulation steadily dropped off from that point on. During the 1990s, the paper sponsored the
Radio Free America talk show.
The Spotlight ceased publication in 2001 after Liberty Lobby was forced into
bankruptcy as a result of a lawsuit.
Willis Carto and other people involved in
The Spotlight then started a new newspaper, called the
American Free Press, which is very similar in overall tone.
The extremely conservative, conspiracy-minded magazine
New Frontiersman in the
graphic novel Watchmen may have been loosely based on
The Spotlight.Further Information
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