William Randolph Hearst (Media Titan & Creep) & Marion Davies (NON-Creep)
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Season 29, Episode 4
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper publisher, media mogul, and politician. He all but created yellow journalism (also known as tabloid journalism), focusing on sensationalism over facts to sell more newspapers. He made the blueprint for sensationalized, politicized, and profit-driven media. He owned 28 major newspapers, 18 magazines, radio stations, and film companies.
Hearst was one of the first media moguls to become a public figure. Now we have Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, and others who are part of the news and control it. In other words, we probably wouldn’t have Fox News without Hearst. Gee, thanks, you creep.
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| 0:31.4 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, |
| 0:35.7 | talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:38.6 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the |
| 0:43.5 | worst. From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome back to What a Creep. This is Mark O'Donoghue, and my cohort in creepitude at all, as always, is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. Hey, Sonia. |
| 1:11.3 | Hello, my friend. Hello, my friend. We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. This is your first time listening. |
| 1:12.2 | Welcome. |
| 1:19.7 | We often look for suggestions from our listeners for creeps because we always end the show with somebody who is not a creep. |
| 1:21.4 | So maybe you have some ideas there. |
| 1:23.8 | So let's get through it how you can reach out to us. |
| 1:28.2 | We have a basic Facebook page, but that's where people go to complain about our language. |
| 1:36.0 | This is your warning. We use salty language in this program. Shit, fuck, damn. We're very, very, very, very interactive in our private Facebook group. So you do have to go to Facebook and you have |
| 1:40.4 | to type in, what a creep podcast group and ask to join. You do have to answer a few |
| 1:44.4 | questions and basically just promise to not be an asshole. That's the key thing. Yes, you need to do it. |
| 1:50.9 | I went in. I've updated our policies. I updated our questions. Thank you, Sonia. Yeah, if you don't |
| 1:57.2 | check the little box, we can't let you in. Like, life is too short, y'all. |
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