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What has been demonstrated by the attacks, said the determinedly antiwar St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is the "hollowness of the Saigon government's pretensions to sovereignty in the cities, the fraud of our Government's claims of imminent victory, and the basic untenability of the American military position." The more hawkish Houston Post took a different view of the attacks. "Except for the loss of life," said the paper, "the raids would have had a comic book character. They were reminiscent of the raids upon the American naval vessels by Japanese kamikaze pilots during World...
That personality got the Post-Dispatch in trouble. An outraged citizen who felt that he had been insulted by a P-D crusade stormed into the newspaper office, threatened Editor John Cockerill and was shot dead for his trouble...
Within Pulitzer, writes Swanberg, were "two warring individuals-Pulitzer the reformer and Pulitzer the salesman." On the one hand, Pulitzer's two principal newspapers-the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World-showed a zeal for news gathering and a passion for reform that changed the shape of U.S. journalism. On the other hand, Pulitzer built up circulation by pandering to the lowest public tastes...
...when Sam Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955, rejuvenated the paper's editorials, concentrated on local coverage, civic progress and a personal membership in virtually every organization in town, all of which lifted circulation (now 315,000 daily) to within hailing distance of the international-minded Post-Dispatch; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Neither paper's music critic reviewed the creation, which band members called "a nice high school march." But the Post-Dispatch could not resist an editorial comment. The Globe-Democrat March, it said, "is reported to have three themes, one spirited, one elegant, and one blues-the blues expressing, no doubt, the melancholy of running second in a two-horse race." Besides, said the PD, it had scooped the Globe by 76 years-Composer Louis Stockigt's Post-Dispatch March was first played at the St. Louis Exposition in 1891. Gushed the P-D at the time...