Encore Wednesdays, Aug. 7 and 14, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! By the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst controlled the largest media empire in the country: 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations, and 13 magazines.
controlled the largest media empire in the country: 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations, and 13 magazines. He used his communications stronghold to achieve political power unprecedented in the industry, then ran for office himself. A man of prodigious appetites and the model for Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane,” his castle,, his companion until death.
Alexandra Nickliss is the author of"Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics," about W. R. Hearst’s mother.
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