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...relationship with F.D.R. was typical. He first opposed the Democrat, then supported him (partly owing to F.D.R.'s elaborate and cynical courtship). But when the New Deal began to cut against big financial interests, Hearst accused Roosevelt of being a communist agent. Throughout his career, Hearst bent his media outlets' coverage to suit his political or financial ends...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to a university president who had been accused by William Randolph Hearst's newspapers of harboring communists: "I sometimes think that Hearst has done more to harm Democracy and civilization in America than any three other contemporaries put together...
...strong perhaps, given the cast of public characters at the time, but it was not all that far from the truth. As David Nasaw's superb new biography, The Chief (Houghton Mifflin; 687 pages; $35), makes compellingly clear, Hearst was the most powerful, the most self-centered and the richest media baron in the world. He controlled newspapers that reached 20 million readers, a news wire service, magazines, newsreels and feature-film companies and radio stations. Each enterprise was tied to the others, creating "synergy" before anyone had heard the word. Hearst said he was serving the nation, but what...
...absolutely. I am just reading a book now called "The Chief" about William Randolph Hearst by [she forgets, but it's David Nasaw] a professor at NYU. It says on the cover that he had an NEH fellowship, so that's a good thing the endowment has done...
HELEN THOMAS Septuagenarian scribe gets new gig with Hearst. Will she cover President DiCaprio...