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TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... was caught on tape robbing a California bank, she is truly proud of her country.Finally arrested, Hearst was sentenced to 7 years in prison, served 2, had the sentence commuted by former democratic President Jimmy Carter and was finally pardoned by former democratic President Bill Clinton. Both former Presidents have named a wing of their Presidential Libraries after Hearst's grandfather,...
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Veronica Hearst is the surviving spouse of Randolph "Randy" Apperson Hearst who was the son of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Only blood relatives (not relatives by marriage) are entitled to benefit from a trust created by William. However, her...
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FIRST THINGS (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
In the late nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer developed what would come to be known as yellow journalism. By disregarding what had been standard journalistic methods, particularly in regards to the verifying of sources, these two publishers were able both to push their country toward war with Spain and dramatically increase the [...]
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the intricate feelings of anyone trying honestly to grapple with it. When I worked for the defunct Hearst paper in Los Angeles (The Los Angeles Herald Examiner), I swapped stars for rosebuds partly in tribute to a movie William Randolph Hearst tried to kill, Citizen Kane, and partly to indicate we saw the humor in the whole ratings game. I welcomed a change here several...
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Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... over the paper’s coverage of Iraq. Before the quests of blood and war between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst in the midst of the Spanish American War, Pulizer had kept America out of war four years prior. Britain and the United States were virtually teetering on the brink of armed conflict in 1894 over a territorial dispute in South America and the Monroe Doctrine....
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Guided by History (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Looking around the Archives last week, I found an account ledger with some of George Hearst's entries made at the First National Bank of Deadwood, South Dakota . His famous son and the family fortune have moved George Hearst to a...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
SAN SIMEON – The narrow road, flanked by endless open hills and towering trees, sharply darts from one bend to the next. It rises, as if without end, to the turrets only partially visible above the trees. MCT News ServiceFog shrouds Hearst Castle, the San Simeon estate of legendary publisher William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951. Hearst's heirs donated the estate...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
During her long career, architect Julia Morgan designed more than 700 buildings. The most famous was William Randolph Hearst's castle, "La Cuesta Encantada," in San Simeon.
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alarm:clock (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Today Guardian Media has bought ContentNext, its flagship site PaidContent and its lucrative events. The Whisper number is that Guardian paid $30M+ We have been reading PaidContent for years, have met Rafat Ali and of course respect what he has pulled off. Ali just might become the new prototype of media mogul. The old media mogul template might be Rupert Murdoch, William Randolph Hearst,...
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Politaholic (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The obituary of ultra-right fruitcake Jesse Helms appears in todays Guardian. It says: "To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity". Helms, the paper reports "...became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its...
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Bzangy Groink (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Darth Murdoch… or is it William Randolph Hearst? I’ve just read this on Keyvan’s blog: Media Lens have received legal threats from the Times newspaper concerning their latest media alert, Selling The Fireball: Bush and Iran. Due to these threats they’ve had to amend their alert to remove responses from Times journalist Bronwen Maddox. To read the [...]
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The Greenbelt (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Here's a fine obituary : To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take his seat. There...
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The Thorn Papers (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Goodbye Senator Helms. From the Guardian UK : Senator Jesse Helms, member of the US Senate's foreign relations committee for two decades and its chairman from 1995 to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Senator Jesse Helms, member of the US Senate's foreign relations committee for two decades and its chairman from 1995 to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper's memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore...
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One Utah (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
... to 2001, has died at the age of 86. To echo this newspaper’s memorable comment on the death of William Randolph Hearst, it is hard even now to think of him with charity. From his earliest years, Helms’s attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take...
