1001 HEROES SPECIAL EPISODE:: ESSAY CONTEST WINNER YELLOW JOURNALISM
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When Sewickley Academy History professor Mike Caesario contacted 1001 and asked if we could participate in their annual chapter studies on Yellow Journalism we jumped at the chance-and agreed to pick a winner from the essays and read it on our show. The entries were all excellent and provided thesis statements and supporting examples from the story of William Randolph Hearst's attempts to sway public opinion against Spain by disseminating non-facts regarding the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in order to foment a war- as well as confirming the need to get both sides of every story in the news.. Hearst and Pulitzer were locked in a battle for dominance in the newspaper industry and their continual display of journalistic malfeasance came to head during this crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Welcome everyone to this special edition of 1001 Heroes, Legends, Hist, histories, podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | At the end of every episode, we encourage our listeners to send us reviews and ideas, which |
| 0:40.0 | many of you do, thank you. |
| 0:42.2 | A few weeks ago, we received an interesting email from a seventh grade history |
| 0:46.0 | teacher in Pennsylvania named Mike Cesario that went like this. Mr Hagadorn, by a way of introduction, I'm a seventh grade history teacher just outside |
| 0:56.9 | of Pittsburgh PA. |
| 0:58.8 | I really enjoyed your recent podcast on Hertz, Pulitzer, and Yellow Journalism. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm attaching two articles that my students read each year concerning Yellow Journalism |
| 1:09.7 | and the Sinking of the U.S. Maine. They include the Hearst article you alluded to in your |
| 1:15.0 | podcast and another more reasonable one published by the New York Times. I hope you |
| 1:20.9 | find them interesting and thank you for all your hard work researching |
| 1:24.4 | writing and producing your podcast I look forward to it each week best regards |
| 1:30.4 | Mike Cesario. I wrote back to thank Mike for the articles. We traded a few ideas and |
| 1:37.6 | that resulted in Mike's asking his so weekly Academy students for essays on the subject of yellow journalism, then submitting his finalists to us, and we agreed we would choose one to air on 1001 heroes, legends, histories and mysteries. |
| 1:52.0 | As most of you are aware from listening to that episode and from your own knowledge of history |
| 1:56.7 | William Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer were competing for newspaper dominance in the biggest markets in the US, and each was trying |
| 2:05.4 | to outdo the other with sensational headlines and stories which often bore very little semblance |
| 2:11.2 | to the truth. At one point Hurst's newspaper |
| 2:14.5 | obviously trying to sway American public opinion and believing that this could |
| 2:18.8 | push the US into a war, which would sell more papers, went too far and accused Spain of blowing up a US ship in |
| 2:26.1 | Havana Harbor without any proof that this was actually the case. |
| 2:30.8 | The Desire for Profited replaced all ethical standards in reporting. |
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