Word: lindberghism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks on the New Deal and aliens. Wrote he in part: "It would certainly seem that a government which is so liberal, not to say wasteful, in spending the people's money, might use some of the money for the useful and needful...
...photographs of Jon Lindbergh were taken by Hearstlings, printed in Hearstpapers. "And Hearst talks...
...Hearst blames the New Deal for U. S. crime, but the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. occurred during the Hoover Administration...
Only apparent defender of the Yellow Press was the Patterson-McCormick tabloid New York Daily News, which cracked: "If the country is going to pot (which we don't think it is), it is not because Lindbergh has left us. A run-out by one harried and frightened prominent citizen does not indicate that the mass of decent people are in danger of being engulfed by the underworld...
Refugees' Reception. Cables announced that every newspaper in London was sending reporters and cameramen to meet the Lindbergh ship at Liverpool, that to guard against a possible Lindbergh dodge some journals were sending men to Cobh, Belfast and Glasgow...