Whenever we got to the turbulent current, something would go wrong with the machinery and the captain would insist that we go limping back to Key West. So the jeweled sword I was to present to General Gomez of the rebel forces was not delivered. It was in the course of this incident that a famous telegraphed correspondence between Remington and Mr.
Hearst was supposed to have taken place. Michelson continued to work for Hearst until But he had served as a close associate of Hearst for more than twenty years — during which national media had published the undisputed story in , , and It seems likely to me that if Hearst had credibly repudiated its essence, Michelson would have heard and reported that also.
In my past business, I sat one night in the sports department of the old Hearst paper, the Journal-American, checking the horse-race charts. His wire was addressed to Mr. William Randolph Hearst Sr. There is no trouble here. There will be no war. I wish to return. And the wire sent back to him from the New York Journal, as it was known then, read:.
Page 4. His published recollection came at least 20 years later, long enough for memory to fray and fade. Fake news. Nowadays, fake news has become a permanent fixture in our lives. Only there was no revolution, no conflict.
With only a few edited stories, some fake technical documents, twisted truths, and outright lies, Hearst whipped up the public so feverishly and so effectively that the US government, looking to prove itself on the world stage, landed troops in Cuba and began the Spanish — American War. However, maintaining his media empire while also running for mayor of New York City and governor of New York left him little time to actually serve in Congress.
Angered colleagues and voters retaliated and he lost both New York races, ending his political career. It is believed the marriage was as much a political arrangement as it was an attraction to glamour for Hearst. Millicent bore Hearst five sons, all of whom followed their father into the media business.
After his flameout in politics, Hearst returned full-time to his publishing business. Over the next several decades, Hearst spent millions of dollars expanding the property, building a Baroque-style castle, filling it with European artwork, and surrounding it with exotic animals and plants.
By the s, one in every four Americans read a Hearst newspaper. He also ventured into motion pictures with a newsreel and a film company. He and his empire were at their zenith. The stock market crash and subsequent economic depression hit the Hearst Corporation hard, especially the newspapers, which were not completely self-sustaining.
Hearst had to shut down the film company and several of his publications. By , the corporation faced a court-ordered reorganization, and Hearst was forced to sell many of his antiques and art collections to pay creditors. During this time, his editorials became more strident and vitriolic, and he seemed out of touch. He turned against President Franklin D.
Roosevelt , while most of his readership was made up of working-class people who supported FDR. In , young film director Orson Welles produced Citizen Kane, a thinly veiled biography of the rise and fall of Hearst. Hearst was not pleased. He mustered his resources to prevent release of the film and even offered to pay for the destruction of all the prints.
Welles refused, and the film survived and thrived. Hearst spent his remaining 10 years with declining influence on his media empire and the public.
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