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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

THE POWER OF THE PRESS: HEARST, PULITZER & THE RISE OF YELLOW JOURNALISM

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

 

This is a story of power, greed, and corruption within our nation's "Fourth Estate"- the press, and how two men, William Randolph Hearst, a millionaire's son and Harvard dropout, and Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant who arrived in America with barely a penny to his name, rose to the top of the publishing empire using a combination of hard work, imagination, ruthless greed, power, and irresponsible "yellow" journalism to line their own pockets while starting a war and, in the case of Hearst, causing the assassination of an American president.through politically biased reporting.

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1:13.6

The U.S. Battleship,

1:16.2

1898.

1:21.9

The U.S. battleship Main was still smoking from its murderous explosion in the

1:25.8

Havana Harbor and the headline in the New York Journal and advertiser read,

1:30.5

destruction of the warship Main was the work of an enemy.

1:35.0

Seemingly a true headline, but the fact was that no one knew for sure if it was caused by an enemy mine or a boiler explosion.

1:44.3

But the newspaper wasn't going to like facts

1:46.8

get in the way of sales.

1:49.0

The point was that the newspapers carrying

1:51.0

this and similar headlines were pushing America into a war,

1:55.0

which would sell many more newspapers and garner huge profits for their owners.

2:00.0

When it came to news in those days, around the turn of the century, one could follow the money trail and the politics and they were always just beneath the surface.

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