Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Terry Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it was revolutionary in those days.
Stories were short and kind of punchier.
Again, there was a lot of, there was content on the household, the domestic world, on women's fashions, on cookery, those kind of areas.
And the Daily Mail, you know, is still very big on that.
I mean, there's this old maxim in British journalism that, you know, who reads different newspapers and, you know, I won't give you the whole one, but one of them was that, you know,
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people that run the country.
The Times is read by the people that run the country, that kind of thing.
But the Daily Mail was a big success.
In the year 1900,
Pulitzer, Alfred Pulitzer, sorry, Joseph Pulitzer, who was the founder of the New York News, New York World newspaper, who introduced this concept of yellow journalism, which was much more extreme than some of what we'd seen on the Daily Mail, into the American climate, into New York.
And there was a vicious sort of circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst, who owned... William Randolph Hearst, who was the model for Citizen Kane, who owned the Rye Bond newspaper in New York.
And they really lowered standards between them because there was this vicious circulation war.
And they... But in 18...
At the end of 1900, most people viewed 1901 as the start of the new century.
So in December 1900, on the
on the 31st of December, Harmsworth, who's this sort of genius from London, is invited by Pulitzer to edit the edition of the New York World for January 1st, 1901.
And Harmsworth is given sort of free reign to do what he wants.
do what he wants.
He orders that all stories should be shortened to, I think it was 500 words, that the newspaper content must be much more dynamic, much more shorter and snappier.
And he has this mission on the front page where he says, this is time-saving journalism.
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