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Stevens was also the stunt coordinator. American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation’s largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. After moving to New York City, Hearst acquired the New York Journal and fought a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. Hearst sold papers by printing giant headlines over lurid stories featuring crime, corruption, sex, and innuendos. He was twice elected as a Democrat to the U. After 1918 and the end of World War I, Hearst gradually began adopting more conservative views and started promoting an isolationist foreign policy to avoid any more entanglement in what he regarded as corrupt European affairs. Hearst was born in San Francisco to George Hearst, a millionaire mining engineer, owner of gold and other mines through his corporation, and his much younger wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst, from a small town in Missouri.

The elder Hearst later entered politics. His paternal great-grandfather was John Hearst of Ulster Protestant origin. John Hearst, with his wife and six children, migrated to America from Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland, as part of the Cahans Exodus in 1766. Hearst attended preparatory school at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. He enrolled in the Harvard College class of 1885.

An ad asking automakers to place ads in Hearst chain, noting their circulation. Searching for an occupation, in 1887 Hearst took over management of his father’s newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which his father had acquired in 1880 as repayment for a gambling debt. Early in his career at the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst envisioned running a large newspaper chain and “always knew that his dream of a nation-spanning, multi-paper news operation was impossible without a triumph in New York”. When Hearst purchased the “penny paper”, so called because its copies sold for a penny apiece, the Journal was competing with New York’s 16 other major dailies. It had a strong focus on Democratic Party politics. Hearst’s activist approach to journalism can be summarized by the motto, “While others Talk, the Journal Acts.

The New York Journal and its chief rival, the New York World, mastered a style of popular journalism that came to be derided as “yellow journalism”, so named after Outcault’s Yellow Kid comic. Arthur Brisbane, who became managing editor of the Hearst newspaper empire and a well-known columnist. Kenneth Whyte noted in The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise Of William Randolph Hearst: “Rather than racing to the bottom, he drove the Journal and the penny press upmarket. The Journal was a demanding, sophisticated paper by contemporary standards.

Under Hearst, the Journal remained loyal to the populist or left wing of the Democratic Party. It was the only major publication in the East to support William Jennings Bryan in 1896. The Journal’s political coverage, however, was not entirely one-sided. New York, Hearst “helped to usher in the multi-perspective approach we identify with the modern op-ed page”. The Morning Journal’s daily circulation routinely climbed above the 1 million mark after the sinking of the Maine and U. War, due to the paper’s immense influence in provoking American outrage against Spain. The Journal’s crusade against Spanish rule in Cuba was not due to mere jingoism, although “the democratic ideals and humanitarianism that inspired their coverage are largely lost to history,” as are their “heroic efforts to find the truth on the island under unusually difficult circumstances.

Perhaps the best known myth in American journalism is the claim, without any contemporary evidence, that the illustrator Frederic Remington, sent by Hearst to Cuba to cover the Cuban War of Independence, cabled Hearst to tell him all was quiet in Cuba. Hearst was personally dedicated to the cause of the Cuban rebels, and the Journal did some of the most important and courageous reporting on the conflict—as well as some of the most sensationalized. Their stories on the Cuban rebellion and Spain’s atrocities on the island—many of which turned out to be untrue—were motivated primarily by Hearst’s outrage at Spain’s brutal policies on the island. While Hearst and the yellow press did not directly cause America’s war with Spain, they inflamed public opinion in New York City to a fever pitch. New York’s elites read other papers, such as the Times and Sun, which were far more restrained. The Journal and the World were local papers oriented to a very large working class audience in New York City.