Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction and in movies, if not always in fact, a good reporter can outsmart a dozen cops. Last week Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin (circ. 160,271) made fiction into fact. To the Call's city desk came word that a 17-year-old girl had been found beaten to death in a clump of bushes in San Francisco's Mission Park. The staff hopped on the story and Reporter Bill Walsh soon turned up the names of the girl's boy friends...
After the confession was complete, the Call graciously admitted a reporter and photographer from Hearst's morning Examiner, but the rest of the San Francisco press had to wait. Said City Editor "Pete" Lee of the rival News (circ. 125,625): "We got thoroughly clobbered...
...From Hearst's New York Journal-American Westbrook Pegler's terrible-tempered column was conspicuously missing one day last week. Reason: as often happens, the column was deemed too hot to print...
Other papers like McCormick's Washington Times-Herald and Hearst's Detroit Times did run the column, and the specific reason for the Journal-American's silence was plain...
...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...