Word: lindberghism
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...Newspapers more than kidnappers," thundered the self-righteous Christian Science Monitor, "have exiled the Lindberghs. . . . Unless one has been besieged in his home, has had his life endangered on scores of landing fields, has had every move even on his wedding trip watched by news spies, has been forced to his wits' end to circumvent photographers who honor no plea for a second son after one feels the first has had 'the finger' put on him by undue publicity-unless one has had just a taste of Colonel Lindbergh's experience with a press that respects...
...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...