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Poignantly, Hearst announced that the S.L.A.'s latest demands were "beyond my financial capability" and that the matter of his daughter's plight "is now out of my hands." Then the publisher of the Hearst Corp.'s San Francisco Examiner, Charles L. Gould, quickly made another desperate counteroffer. The Hearst Corp., he said, would donate the additional $4 million to PIN "provided Patricia Hearst is released unharmed." Gould made it clear that the offer was final. The stage was thus set for the S.L.A. to reach a decision on Patricia's fate: to release...
That was before the kidnaping of Patricia Hearst. Now, says a Chronicle reporter, "San Francisco newspapers for the first time are being forced to print things over which they have no control...
...first communique to the Hearst family after taking Patricia, the S.L.A. stated flatly that "all communications from this court must be published in full, in all newspapers, and all other forms of the media. Failure to do so will endanger the safety of the prisoner." That threat left Hearst little choice. He asked -some Examiner staffers say he "directed"-his paper to print all future documents from the S.L.A. A senior Examiner staffer also did a detailed re-examination of the Oakland murder that differed from the earlier coverage. Read the headline: MURDER CASE AGAINST SLA PAIR CIRCUMSTANTIAL...
...Hearst has asked other papers and local radio and television stations to comply with the S.L.A. ultimatum concerning coverage. Chronicle Editor and Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, a close friend of Hearst's, readily agreed...
...Hearst and Thieriot feel that they do not have that luxury. Thus the Examiner and the Chronicle have printed a long, windy S.L.A. manifesto. Both ran a second letter and the transcript of a tape recording of Patty Hearst's voice: the Examiner added a photocopy of the letter for good measure. Later tapes of Patricia received similar play. While stressing the story's newsworthiness, many San Francisco newsmen chafe at giving a handful of terrorists unlimited space. But, as Examiner Editor Tom Eastham observes, "There appears to be no alternative...