2. Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his time, but had a broader reach than Murdoch now has because it transcended narrow party differences and went beyond politics to culture (with his vast press empire having a hand in everything from cartoons to movies)
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3. The interesting thing about Hearst is that he was a pioneer of both left & right populism, first using anti-systems politics to attack wealthy elites & then turning it against the New Deal. This was both a cultural & a political agenda.
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4. The shift in Heast from left to right populism can be seen in comics he published & closely supervised. The early strips featured young upstarts disrupting the social order (Katzenjammer Kids), the later ones Cold War & Yellow Peril paranoia (Steve Canyon, Flash Gordon)
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5. More thoughts here on the shift in Hearst politics & how it relates to his cultural legacy (an essay, podcast & a gallery show).https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-and-gallery-william-randolph?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Rupert Murdoch's blueprint
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Sounds like a mission for
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I would read that piece.
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Fewer tweets! More Jeet!
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I’m not a fan…he’s the reason for a lot of bad things we’re dealing with now. Greedy people kill
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