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You're Wrong About

The Newsboys' Strike of 1899 (Part 2)

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sarah tells Mike about the thrilling conclusion to a children’s labor action and an overlooked Disney musical. Digressions include cronuts, carrier pigeons and Sylvester Graham’s crackers. Both hosts agree that they love saying the word "papes."

Most of the information in this episode comes from Sarah's two new favorite books, Vincent DiGirolamo’s “Crying the News” and David Nasaw’s “Children of the City.” And here's the link to the newsboy footage we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gatfLuD-Do

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0:00.0

You give me Princess Diana, I give you the kid from one of the Robocot movies.

0:18.3

Welcome to You're Wrong About, the podcast that tips over the delivery truck of history

0:24.0

and sees what comes out the back. Oh, I love that.

0:26.7

Hey, I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic.

0:31.2

I'm Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.

0:33.9

And if you want to support the show, we are on patreon at patreon.com slash

0:37.9

you're wrong about. And you can also find cute t-shirts and other ways to support us.

0:42.8

Or you can just keep tuning in for our thrilling conclusion.

0:46.7

We are talking about Disney today. Disney.

0:50.7

So where are we? I'm going to ask you that question because it is your job to learn about

0:56.5

the newsies. I'm curious about what you find to be salient about what we talked about last time.

1:01.8

I think the newsies pronounce it. What did I loin?

1:04.4

Yeah, what did you loin? So last week, we met the newsboys who stand on street corners

1:11.9

selling the newspapers. This is how the newspapers reach the mass public.

1:15.4

And just after we met our newsboys, we learned that Pulitzer and Heust had increased the price

1:23.0

of the paps for them to sell. And all of a sudden, they sort of came out of the Spanish-American

1:28.1

war and were like, wait a minute, nobody's buying the papers as much because the war is over.

1:33.1

And we just gave up 10% of our profits. And this sucks. So let's go on strike.

1:38.4

Yeah. And we are talking about a real-life strike. And we are also talking about a Disney film.

1:46.3

Yes. It is very important to me and many other people. But not apparently to the Disney company.

1:51.6

One of the images that came into my head as I was researching this because one of the words that

1:55.9

comes up a lot in the story is circulation. Just imagine like think of New York City and the

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