Rob Reid
speaker
1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a trial.
He's saying that Augustine had brass knuckles in his hand and he was just defending himself.
He gets off with a small fine.
But what's very interesting is Pulitzer's innate understanding of media even at this point.
He's just a few years into his media career.
And so when he wants to get attention on something, every single day he will bring it back up in the newspaper.
And in some cases, when he's attacking an issue or a politician, there's times where he does something like 112 straight stories.
And what he knows is if he wants to get attention, he has to keep putting pieces of media out.
And then those pieces of media will be commented on the readers of the newspaper.
And you know he knows this at this point because when he doesn't want attention on something, he does this.
Pulitzer knew he had little to gain by mentioning the shooting since that would give his critics another opportunity to comment on it.
So when he wants something to go away, he doesn't try to explain, rebut, debate.
He meets it with silence, knowing that the public's attention will move forward quickly.
Now, another important thing to point out is the hypocrisy that you see throughout his life story.
where what he publicly says and his private behavior in many cases do not match up.
So he says over and over again in his writing that he's against corruption.
But then a few years later, he accepts a high paying job from a political ally.
So he is going to get a seat on the St.
Louis Police Commission.
It requires very few hours of work and it pays a thousand dollars a year.
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