How Hearst Made Modern Media | Citizen Hearst | American Experience | PBS

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No man reshaped news and media to the same extent as William Randolph Hearst. A man with a larger-than-life personality, he filled his newspapers with drama and hyperbole, and transformed the news we view today.

In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst’s media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as “synergy,” Hearst used his media stronghold to achieve unprecedented political power, then ran for office himself. After serving two terms in Congress, he came in second in the balloting for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1904. Perhaps best known as the inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and his lavish castle in San Simeon, Hearst died in 1951 at the age of 88, having transformed the media’s role in American life and politics. The two-part, four-hour film is based on historian David Nasaw’s critically acclaimed biography, “The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst.”

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I'm very curious to see this special when it airs. I love the Citizen Kane reference in the title.

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George Herrimann's KRAZY KAT is now remembered as a classic comic strip, but at the time it was never very popular; it survived because HEARST himself liked it!

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Did yall talk about how his wealth was derived from his slave owning ancestors from Missouri?

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