Rob Reid
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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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who he has no partners, he owns all of it, is generating, even now, at the beginning of his career, is generating him an income of $88,000 a year.
Put that into context at a time when the average skilled worker makes $600 a year.
When he has the most successful newspaper in the world in New York, he'll make millions a year.
And that's what I meant earlier, if you think about where he started.
So he describes the way he came to America.
He's like, when I came to the United States, I was friendless, I was homeless, I was tongueless, and I was a guideless.
He didn't know anybody, didn't speak the language, didn't have any money, and lived on the streets.
And in two decades, becomes one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country.
And so even before he gets to New York, his workforce tries to unionize.
And this is what I meant earlier about the hypocrisy, the difference between what he publicly pronounces and what he privately does.
Pulitzer was sympathetic to the aims of the labor movement.
But this was different from writing an editorial dictating the behavior of others.
Pulitzer would not abide anything that challenged his rule within the paper.
We have a rules for thee, not for me situation here.
And this is what Pulitzer does.
The printers were fired.
The post-dispatch Pulitzer declared, declines to be told who it shall and shall not employ.
It refuses to be instructed as to how to measure its type, feed its press, or be limited to the number of apprentices that it should take into the office.
Simply put, Pulitzer was a Democrat in politics, but a despot in the office.
And so it was never Pulitzer's intent to stay in St.
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