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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The world's circulation soared.
And so now he has the most successful newspaper in the world.
And as a result of the success that he's enjoying, it starts to spawn imitators all throughout other cities.
It says his formula worked even for a young dropout from Harvard.
And so this is when you have this massive competition between the next Joseph Pulitzer, somebody that takes Joseph Pulitzer's ideas even further than Joseph Pulitzer himself did.
That is William Randolph Hearst, who at the time in this story is only 24 years old.
and his father's unbelievably wealthy and owns the San Francisco Examiner.
He convinces his father to give the newspaper to him with the explicit goal of saying, I'm going to set about transforming the Examiner into a West Coast version of Joseph Pulitzer's The World.
For years, Hearst had read, studied, and cut out articles from the world.
And so eventually, for years from now, William Randolph Hearst is actually going to use Pulitzer's ideas against him.
And they engage in this decade-long fight and feud and circulation war in New York City.
And so then again, we were reminded of this kind of hypocrisy he does.
He attacks the rich and the wealthy and the powerful in the papers, and yet he deeply desires to be them.
In private, he's doing business deals with them.
It says Pulitzer did not object to wealth.
In fact, he coveted it.
However, the kind of wealth mattered.
Inherited fortunes were a social evil, according to Pulitzer, but earned wealth was not.
He was moved by quite strong hunger for wealth, luxury, and power.
Pulitzer did not simply socialize with those he attacked in the pages of his newspaper.
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