![]() Hearst: The Rise of Yellow Journalism) before listening to this show. This is Part Two of our two-part series on Joseph Pultizer and William Randolph Hearst. PLUS: How have the legacies of Pulitzer and Hearst influenced our world to this day? And where can you find the remnants of their respective empires in New York City today? It’s a face-off so dramatic, they wrote a musical about it! Think Hearst on a yacht, barreling into conflicts where he didn’t belong!īut by 1899, with the war only a recent memory, the publishers faced a very different battle - one with their own newsboys, united against the paper’s unfair pricing practices. ![]() The Spanish-American War allowed Hearst (with Pulitzer playing catch up) fresh opportunities to sell newspapers using exaggerated reports, melodramatic illustrations and even outlandish stunts. ![]() While President William McKinley urged calm and patience, two New York newspapers jumped to a hasty conclusion - Spain had destroyed the ship! On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine mysteriously exploded and sank while stationed in Havana Harbor in Cuba. So what happens when those flamboyant publications are given an international conflict to write about? The paper’s frantic, sensational style was so shocking that it became known as ‘yellow journalism’. EPISODE 336 The newspapers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst - the New York World and the New York Journal - were locked in a fierce competition for readers in the mid 1890s. ![]()
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