William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearstwas an American newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced the history of American journalism. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after being given control of The San Francisco Examiner by his wealthy father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World that led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensationalized stories featuring crime, corruption,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 April 1863
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.
We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.
You can crush a man with journalism.
All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.
Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.
I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.
If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.
Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.