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Hearst   /hərst/   Listen
Hearst

noun
1.
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951).  Synonym: William Randolph Hearst.






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"Hearst" Quotes from Famous Books



... America prays nightly that God will deliver into his hands some Thaw, or Becker, or O'Leary, that he may get upon the front pages and so become a governor, a United States senator, or a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The late crusade against W. R. Hearst, which appeared to the public as a great patriotic movement, was actually chiefly managed by a subordinate prosecuting officer who hoped to get high office ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... that the most prominent and thorough-going reformers, such as Roosevelt, Bryan, and Hearst, are not lawyers by profession, and that the majority of prominent American lawyers are not reformers. The tendency of the legally trained mind is inevitably and extremely conservative. So far as reform consists ...
— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly

... presented themselves to him; one finds discrimination. He refuses a Republican nomination for Mayor of New York City when there is not a chance of electing a Republican Mayor of New York City. He accepts a Republican nomination for Governor of New York State, when the putting up of Hearst as the Democratic candidate makes the election of a Republican as Governor of New York State morally certain. He refuses the Republican nomination for President, in 1912, when another, viewing himself and his party less objectively, through vanity perhaps, might have believed ...
— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous



Words linked to "Hearst" :   William Randolph Hearst, publisher, newspaper publisher



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