Cosmopolitan Yellow

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Anyone who has seen Citizen Kane (1941) will have learned a little bit about William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), on whom the movie is loosely based. He founded the Hearst Corporation, a media empire that now boasts 15 daily and 34 weekly newspapers, hundreds of magazines, and 29 television stations. Hearst aided the rise of yellow journalism, a term for exaggerated and often fraudulent reporting that seeks to lure readership with sensational headlines.

Hearst's granddaughter, Patricia Hearst, inspired sensational but true headlines in 1974 when she robbed a bank in San Francisco with members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a leftist radical group, after having been kidnapped,...

 

is the executive editor of Salvo and the  Director of Publications for the Fellowship of St. James.

This article originally appeared in Salvo, Issue #33, Summer 2015 Copyright © 2024 Salvo | www.salvomag.com https://salvomag.com/article/salvo33/cosmopolitan-yellow

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