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...result, writes Swanberg, was "the orgasmic acme of ruthless, truthless newspaper jingoism." Hearstmen in Cuba trumped up atrocity stories to The Chief's (and the public's) taste. Sent down to draw the look of battle, Artist Frederic Remington cabled his desire to return: EVERYTHING is QUIET. THERE is NO TROUBLE HERE. THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Hearst's infamous response: PLEASE REMAIN. YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES AND I'LL FURNISH THE WAR. Seizing upon the still-unexplained sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor as an excuse, Hearst whipped the U.S. into a chauvinistic...
...paper, to be published daily except Sunday as the News-Call Bulletin, will be run editorially by Scripps-Howard, leaving the business operation under Hearstmen. Unaffected by the consolidation : Hearst's morning Examiner, still the biggest paper in town (circ. 263,500, or 27,020 more than the Chronicle...
...front-paged an interview with Khrushchev by its managing editor Turner Catledge. At least twice since the war, Hearst newsmen have headlined Moscow interviews, one of them far more tightly tailored to Kremlin preconditions, and the other deemed worthy of a Pulitzer Prize to William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Hearstmen Frank Conniff and Kingsbury Smith. Said Joseph Alsop, who last February interviewed Khrushchev for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate: "Any news-gathering organization has a double duty, to make money for its stockholders, but above all, to present the important facts of the world in which we live...
...that a man could live like Adam, without clothing or utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped in a pit, wore it through Boston's streets before one of the biggest crowds in the city's history. When jeering Hearstmen claimed to have found a bullet hole in the bearskin, Knowles went back to Maine, and in front of witnesses clubbed to death a New Brunswick bear which had been brought down in a cage and released...
Last week the Hearstmen picked themselves up off the floor. Their "hero" had exploded right in their faces. At Fort Devens, Mass., Private McGee had just been sentenced to six months for being AWOL and drunk, and for making false statements under oath. The false statements: that he had been in combat, had won the Purple Heart and Silver Star. The conviction, the court-martial revealed, was the thirteenth of McGee's Army career...