William Randolph Hearst, 1863 - 1951
1906 portrait by J. E. Purdy
Born: 29 April 1863, San Francisco, California
Died: 14 August 1951, Beverly Hills, California
Hearst's wealthy parents sent him to prep school at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and he enrolled at Harvard, where he was a member of the Harvard Lampoon until he was expelled over a prank. His father had taken the San Francisco Examiner in payment of a gambling debt, and Hearst took it over in 1887, proclaiming it the "Monarch of the Dailies" and investing heavily in equipment and talent. In 1896, with his mother's money, he bought the New York Morning Journal, hiring the best staff from Pulitzer's New York World. He served two terms in Congress (Democrat from California) but lost his later runs for New York City mayor and New York governor and senator. Family money combined with his exuberant populism built his news empire to 28 papers by the mid 1920s, and let him branch out by founding or buying Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, King Features Syndicate, two news services, and the first of his radio stations. Because of his family wealth, few of his businesses had needed to turn a profit, when the Great Depression came he lost control, becoming an employee in the business he had put together.
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- A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - 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. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - If you make a product good enough, even though you live in the depths of the forest, the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark - well-intentioned, but ineffective. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil. permalink
William Randolph Hearst - 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. permalink
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