William Randolph Hearst.
Publishing business
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Searching for an occupation, in 1887 he took over management of a newspaper which his father George Hearst had accepted as payment of a gambling debt, the San Francisco Examiner. Giving his paper a grand motto, "Monarch of the Dailies", he acquired the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish stories of municipal and financial corruption, often attacking companies in which his own family held an interest. Within a few years, his paper dominated the San Francisco market.
[edit]New York Morning Journal
In 1895, with the financial support of his mother, he bought the failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers like Stephen Crane and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-to-head circulation war with his former mentor, Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, from whom he 'stole' Richard F. Outcault, the inventor of color comics. His was the only major newspaper in the East to support William Jennings Bryan and Bimetallism in 1896. The New York Journal (later New York Journal-American) reduced its price to one cent and attained unprecedented levels of circulation through sensational articles on subjects like crime and pseudoscience.
[edit]Support for Spanish-American War
The paper fought to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. Both Hearst and Pulitzer published images of Spanish troops placing Cubans into concentration camps where they suffered and died from disease and hunger. The term yellow journalism, (derived from the name of The Yellow Kid comic strip in the Journal), was used to refer to these types of sensational newspaper articles. Journalism historians point out that at the time, this style was rare outside New York City and would not have affected voters elsewhere.
Hearst publicized the war in an effort to sell more papers than his rival publisher Pulitzer, both of whose circulations came to surpass a million per day. When war correspondent and illustrator Frederic Remington telegraphed from Cuba that no war was imminent, Hearst is said to have telegraphed Remington back with this message:
“ Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. ”
This quote first appeared in a James Creelman 1901 work called "On the Great Highway." However, author Howard Langer in his book "America in Quotations" notes that some scholars now question Creelman's reliability because Remington nor Davis (a correspondent accompaning Remington in Cuba) ever confirmed it, and Hearst himself flatly denied ever saying it. [3]
His own political career suffered after the assassination of President William McKinley when a satirical poem by Ambrose Bierce he had published a few months earlier alluding to a possible McKinley assassination made the publisher look irresponsible.
[edit]Expansion
In part to aid in his political ambitions, Hearst opened newspapers in some other cities, among them Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston. The creation of his Chicago paper was requested by the Democratic National Committee and Hearst used this as an excuse for Phoebe Hearst to transfer him the necessary start-up funds. By the mid-1920s he had a nation-wide string of 28 newspapers, among them the Los Angeles Examiner, the Boston American, the Atlanta Georgian, the Chicago Examiner, the Detroit Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Washington Times, the Washington Herald, and his flagship the San Francisco Examiner.
Hearst also diversified his publishing interests into book publishing and magazines; several of the latter are still existent, including such well-known periodicals as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Town and Country, National Geographic and Harper's Bazaar.
In 1924 he opened the New York Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid frankly imitating the New York Daily News. Among his other holdings were the magazines Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar; two news services, Universal News and International News Service; King Features Syndicate; a film company, Cosmopolitan Productions; extensive New York City real estate; and thousands of acres of land in California and Mexico, along with timber and mining interests.
Hearst promoted writers and cartoonists despite the lack of any apparent demand for them by his readers. The press critic A.J. Liebling reminds us how many Hearst stars would not be deemed employable elsewhere. One Hearst favorite, George Herriman, was the inventor of the dizzy comic strip Krazy Kat; not especially popular with either readers or editors, it is now considered by many to be a classic, a belief once held only by Hearst himself.
The Hearst news empire reached a circulation and revenue peak about 1928, but the economic collapse of the Great Depression and the vast over-extension of his empire cost him control of his holdings. It is unlikely that the newspapers ever paid their own way; mining, ranching and forestry provided whatever dividends the Hearst Corporation paid out. When the collapse came, all Hearst properties were hit hard, but none more so than the papers; adding to the burden were the Chief's now-reactionary politics, increasingly at odds with those of his readers. Refused the right to sell another round of bonds to unsuspecting investors, the shaky empire tottered. Unable to service its existing debts, Hearst Corporation faced a court-mandated reorganization in 1936. From this point, Hearst was just another employee, subject to the directives of an outside manager. Newspapers and other properties were liquidated, the film company shut down; there was even a well-publicized sale of art and antiquities. While World War II restored circulation and advertising revenues, his great days were over. Hearst died of heart attack in 1951, aged eighty-eight, at Beverly Hills, California, and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
The Hearst Corporation continues to this day as a large, privately held media conglomerate based in New York City.
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Kyle Akins (flautist of Think In French) and Christos Andrews (wanker of Schizopolitans) both appeared to have the same musical idea: a noisy power-duo with complex rhythms, electronic wizardry, live loops, and frantic stage persona. The first rehearsals came together instantly and formed beautifully. Recreating the full sound and energy of a full band as a two piece seemed, as it surprised both of them, very natural.
I love the Bio!!! Except I want to know more about our history. Perhaps a short overview of the lack of formal education we have, mostly me. Then maybe a list, in order of preference, of all the cheeseburger joints we like. Maybe we could start a list where everyone, not only ourselves, recommends a fine dinning establishment.....We don't have to just include cheeseburgers!!!! We could be BBQ, or pizza, BURRITOS!!! Of course!!! To be honest, we should talk about what really brought us together, noisy restaurants. ----------------------------------------------------------------
It's the noisy restaurant that inspired us, you and me, and them, to hop on a the musical bandwagon and start a band. We could identify with all the rhythms in the kitchen, the metal clanging on the grill, the buckets of french fries sizzling, the pounding of machinery as it formed potato fries, the rustling of paper bags......all this translated into something for us. And, maybe, just maybe......will it be something for you. Something that fills you up.
---------------------------------------------thanks Christos, see you later,
Love,
Kill
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------P.S. I really think people should start posting some great cheeseburger places, but please DO NOT just limit it to cheeseburgers, my incisors do not discriminate. Oh yeah, all the love in the world to my Vegetarian/Vegan friends,.....Thanks for understanding that I'm allergic to all of that stuff, and our/my bodies(y) just need high concentrations of protein and animal blood.
Thank you so much for the kind words. I could discuss YOUR lack of formal education, but I actually have been formally trained since I began to play music. I've studied with some truly fantastic people throughout the years. Also, I was a drum instructor in Las Vegas for a while. Lucky break, huh? But anyway...
As we just discussed, I can't talk about my high training of exquisite dining connoisseur-ship on the same level as you. You are into greasy burger pits, cheap burritos (I'm talking 40 cents here), and Dr. Pepper. I am more into the formal style of grazing by sitting down with a couple of well-dressed peers, eating a $30 buffalo steak (anything past medium-rare offends me), and drinking some 2006 Rombauer Merlot. I won't lie, a good red wine may compliment a double-double every so often, but I can only get my kicks from animal style.
Although, I mustn't excuse the great influence that the mighty kitchen has given us. Not just "us" as a band, but "us" as life. I shall not elaborate, just think about that one.
Oh Kyle, when will you learn? When will you become more civilized and learn the difference between white wine and red wine? Can you even tell me what "USDA organic" MEANS? I still love you like a father, but it can get to me sometimes. I just certainly hope, and expect, our audience to be of upper class. But this is one thing that is so beautiful, Kyle. We are polar opposites, and STILL such great friends. Our music has that interesting dichotomy. I hope you take this as influential and not offensive. I mean everything with great love and concern.
cool. yeah we haven't been able to set up anything with any venues or anything. but if you could help us out at all we'll totally hook it up if you're ever down in the bay area.
recording is tricky. we still haven't quite nailed anything in that department. i identify with that shit.
But Christos has had formal education, private instructors, and public education funded conductors peeking over his shoulders as he fakes sight reading that cadence we all oh so love.
