Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press; Cyrus H. K. Curtis, owner of the Saturday Evening Post and many another publication; Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times; Ogden M. Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor- and other men and many a lady of fashion...
Some people will write almost anything for money; William Randolph Hearst will pay them for it and publish it. In the March Cosmopolitan, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray, onetime White House housekeeper (TIME, Nov. 15), tells in one breath that President Harding used to drink whiskey with his friends in the White House after the 18th Amendment was passed; in the next breath that she put her arms around Mrs. Harding after the President's death, while the widow murmured: "Oh, Mrs. Jaffray...
...Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane has no time to read all the despatches carefully. He swallowed Mr. Rogers' misquotation hook, line and sinker, as did many another. Soon Hearst Editor Brisbane wrote...
...even this sufficed. Last week the tabloids were scenting still more pornography afar. The Hearst Mirror, which had referred to Browning as "Bozo Bunny," cried last week: "BOZO KING BEN NEXT! . . . Within a few weeks King Ben* will be tried . . . accused of ruining many young girls . . . more sensational than the Browning case...
...suddenly behold a garbage pail at the bottom of the hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation was so unavoidable that...