Word: hearstian
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...American public, which was told that Castro's hoarse cries of invasion were the product of a deranged mind. With the possible exception of one or two New York Times dispatches, the American press voluntarily sold its readers the government's bill of goods on Cuba. Even the Hearstian exaggerations of the rebels' strength were undoubtedly just what the CIA and the rebels themselves wanted, for it was certainly in their interest to appear a greater threat to Castro than they really were...
...American newspaperman (his name is that of a doomed deity, the mother of the gods in Babylonian mythology). The book tells how Tiamat arrives at young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts...
...William Randolph Hearst's trained seals, none were quicker on their flippers than the correspondents in his Washington bureau. When The Chief snapped, they did verbal, handstands for MacArthur, steadily honked that Dean Acheson was being fired any minute, tugged in pet Congressmen to sound off on any Hearstian cause...
Those closest to young Hearst predict that he will soon drop such Hearstian acts as antivivisection campaigns, try to get a note of restraint into editorials. Young Bill has a tough job; the Hearst chain, long faltering, was saved mainly by the lush advertising of World War II and the ensuing boom, plus stringent economies. Most of the top brass is now 60 or over, and new blood is needed in the top command. In Hearst shops, the talk is that young Bill will want some changes made...
Almost to the end, his fertile, facile brain kept tabs on all his outposts of empire. He still spread his papers on the floor before his bedroom chair, turning the pages with one slipper and bending down to scrawl his piercing critiques, giving his editors lessons in Hearstian journalism. Deskmen at the Los Angeles Examiner, nerve center of the chain, received small or great commands as late as 3 a.m. More frequently in later years they were relayed over the phone by Miss Davies, and whether they called for an editorial blast against Secretary of State Acheson...