The Newspaper War

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k now and was then, a Mecca Of media. From this city emerged the two giants of yellow journalism, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Pulitzer and Hearst owned the two most popular newspapers not only in New York but also thru out the entire country. Hurst and Pulitzer where unable to exist in the same business, both had grown accustomed to being the best, and neither would step down to the other, The two men where giants on and island that could only have one. They soon found themselves in a face off for control of New York newsstands.
Joseph Pulitzer was a self made man, born in hungry, and came to America a humble immigrant. He worked lowly jobs such as a waiter and a baggage handler, but in his free time he studied English and law in the local library. Thru hard work and wise business deals he purchased a bankrupt St. Louis newspaper and turned it around. Pulitzer continued to purchase failing newspapers and he soon amassed a media empire. His papers became famous for there courageous campaigns against corruption in business and politics. And He is considered largely responsible for the passing of antitrust act. Joseph Pulitzer even attacked the credibility of Theodore Roosevelt, when he exposed fraudulent payments made by the United States to the French Panama Canal Company. 3
Unlike his counter part William Randolph Hearst was born the only child to a multimillionaire. At the age of twenty-three Hearst became the owner of his first newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, after his father gave it to him as payment for a gambling debit. William Randolph Hearst, inspired by the work of Pulitzer modeled his paper in the same manor. By copying Pulitzer’s brand of investigative journalism and sensationalism, Hearst became one of the richest and most po...