William Randolph Hearst And The French Revolution

Before the founding of America newspapers were local and worked for their own agenda. With the unfair taxes and acts that were passed by Parliament the nation needed to create a unity in the colonies. Colonies formed Committees of Correspondence to keep each other informed of the resistance efforts throughout the colonies. Newspapers reprinted the tales of the protests and actions against Britain. This created American propaganda to obtain fair treatment from Britain. The greatest time that the newspapers came together to inform the colonies of the Boston Massacre. Being the biggest piece of propaganda at the time, the massacre lead to more colonists believing that they could be a part of a bigger political community and was one of the turning points in American History that lead to the independence of the country from British rule.

Yellow Journalism before and during the time of the Spanish-American War was used used to fabricate political events between the Americans and the Spanish and used as a mechanism to go to war with the Spanish. In return, the news agencies profited and capitalized on the sales by selling tons of newspapers. The journalists would write about what was going on over seas and they would exaggerate what was happening. Yellow Journalism brought upon disagreements, deception, and lies, while depicting the Spanish to be some sort of Monster that was trying to destroy America. Yellow Journalism caused havoc across the world and served as a catalysts for the war. Evidently Yellow Journalism is exaggerated reportings on what happened overseas, used as a false propaganda to rile up the Americans, and lastly motivate them to go to war.

According to an article written in (His.state.gov), Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. In the late 19th century it was one of many factors that persuaded the United States and Spain into war in Cuba

When newspapers were first introduced, they were black and white and crowded with information. As time went on, newspapers added different content and appealed to a large variety of readers. It was in 1880 when an American newspaper decided to do something different. “ A photomechanical reproduction of a photograph appeared in the Daily Graphic on March 4, 1880. Before that time it was common practice for American editors to enlist artists to sketch and report on news events.” (Library of Congress) The invention of photomechanical reproduction by George Eastman created a sense of realism and connection. When reading an article accompanied by a photo, the audience was able to connect to the news and place themselves within it; however, it was the arrival of the Kodak camera that officially made

From 1895 to 1898, the yellow press exploited high public tensions for headlines regularly. In fact, Hearst is reported to have told one of his photographers: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

While eventually it was seen as a crude technique to sell more newspapers and push for the outcome that the publishers were in favor of, the term was birthed through the constant competition between newspaper publishers. In 1896, Joseph Pulitzer (Pulitzer Prize) and William Randolph Hearst were publishers of two leading New York newspapers and both were engaged in a bidding war over a cartoonist who drew a strip known as the Yellow Kid. The cartoon strip was a satirical representation of life in the slums of New York, and it originally acquired profit for Pulitzer’s paper, New York World. Hearst, in an effort to raise the earnings of his paper, bought the cartoonist. The fighting between Hearst and Pulitzer, over the cartoon and the market, lead to the transformation of the Yellow Kid. The Yellow Kid is arguably the first negative news source desired and was only the prelude to its successor, known as Yellow

Joseph Pulitzer owned the Journal and William Randolph Hearst owned the World. One day, they were discussing means to make more money and increase profits. Ideas were thrown back and forth. Including laying people off, lowering wages, and even firing people whose jobs were not important. Until they came under the conclusion to increase the tax of a ¨newsie bundle,¨ or 100 papers, from 50¢ to 60¢. The newsies could hardly pay for the papers as is. They knew they had to do something about it, so that's when the newsies took matters into their own

William Randolph Hearst was born April 29,1863 in San Francisco, California. His father was a multimillionaire geologist who gained his wealth from the California Gold Rush and his mother was one of the first women philanthropists’ in the United States. William received the best education, but was frequently expelled from his schools because of pulling pranks on teachers. He was even expelled from Harvard for sending his professors engraved chamber pots. By the age of 16, his mother had already taken him on 2 art tours. Hearst gained his love of art from his mother and his ambition and energy from his father. In 1887, Hearst insisted that his father gives him the San Francisco Examiner, a newspaper his father owned. When his father died, he left everything to his wife and left Hearst with nothing, but when

William Randolph Hearst- built his media empire after inheriting the San Francisco Examiner from his father. He challenged New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer by buying the rival New York Journal, earning attention for his “yellow journalism.”

Hearst and his papers used yellow journalism to push the US into the war by constantly trying to make the Spanish look as bad as possible.

Needless to say these events (described sensationally) caused the Journals circulation to soar. However it did not reach the level of the World. Another one of Hearst’s failiurs was that he hadn’t yet caused the war between Spain and the U.S.. He was forced to turn to more extreme tactics. He became the description of the slogan he himself had written: “While others talk, the Journal

Her work for this magazine caught the attention of Samuel Sidney McClure, the founder of McClure’s Magazine, who was looking for writers for his new monthly publication. Tarbell was hired as an editor in 1894 and quickly became McClure’s Magazine‘s most successful writer. She became very successful due to her series on Abraham Lincoln which nearly doubled the number of magazines sold. Later on, a whole new generation of investigative journalists called “muckrakers”, given the name by President Theodore Roosevelt, began a campaign to expose corruption in businesses. Theodore Roosevelt gave these opinionated journalists the pessimistic label ‘muckrakers’ in a speech in 1906. Despite this negative label, Tarbell campaigned with the other journalists.

As a child Robert had a robust enthusiasm for history. It was his favorite subject in grammar school. At the age of 11, Robert wanted some independence so he got his own newspaper route.( Joe Geringer,1995).

He moved to St. Louis and worked in many jobs such as; muleteer, baggage handler, and a waiter. Pulitzer spent a lot of his time in the Mercantile Library, and he engrossed himself in studying law and English. One day he was watching two men play chess he “astutely critiqued a move”. It just so happened that the men were editors of the German newspaper Westliche Post. The editors started talking to Pulitzer and found his passion for writing to be a good quality for their newspaper. They offered him a job, and he took the job with great honor. He worked very hard, “toiling day and night”. After a long four years the company was almost bankrupt. They offered Pulitzer a promotion. He accepted and used the job to learn as much as he could about the world of

Newspaper Owner 1 is a “diversified media company that generates most of its revenues through newspapers sold around the country and around the world” (pg. 122). Competition for subscribers and advertising revenues