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pulitzer. he studied pulitzer s methods. he bought a newspaper that was interestingly started by pulitzer s younger brother so every day when pulitzer open up the journal and realize this competitor might put him out of business he was competing with of the work of his brother. talk about sibling rivalry. william randolph hearst how did him on the less good aspects of their journalism, in raising greater sensationalism and was far more successful at that but the key moment is with the spanish-american war. many of you have heard mr. thomas talking about his book. during the spanish-american war these two papers competed in a way they began to make up stories. pulitzer was depressed over the loss of his daughter on jekyll island so william randolph hearst was leading his troops to compete against the world and pulitzer they knew if the piper collapsed they couldn t work for william randolph hearst so every of when this thing william randolph hearst did they tried to do equally. so the paper had a story about a colonel killed in the war with a really odd last name. the world picked up the story and reprinted in entirely. the next david journal announced if you look at his last name it is an anagram for week hole for the news. when the spanish-american war was over and the competition was over pulitzer came back to his senses and put out an edict that they couldn t engage in this sensationalistic journalism but the damage had been done a. of want to give a comparison to sherlock holmes and moriarty. i hope you all read the last story. if not i m giving something away. they fight in switzerland and both fall to their deaths. history will always link open any history. william randolph hearst and pulitzer are linked. all the achievements i m telling you about our lost because pulitzer will always be linked as a yellow sensationalistic journalist. thank you. yes? if you years ago in the fifth grade at wrote a paper on pulitzer. i wish i founded during my research. we had a little pamphlet on the history. your book was better and more reasoned. thank you. talk about the relationship with his brother? was his brother at all successful? did they dislike each other or just ignore each other. the question is about pulitzer s brother albert. all of the children died by the time pulitzer was 13 except for his younger brother albert who came to the united states after joseph pulitzer and just like his older brother he got into journalism. this infuriated joseph who was quite an egomaniac and his brother got into journalism but was doing better than he was. started a newspaper in new york called the chambermaid s delight. that was its nickname. but sold copies and here was his brother. millionaire publishing in new york and he was stuck in st. louis with a respectable paper. it really bugged him. when he came to new york he tried to force his brother to merge papers. he said what should the merger with you? pulitzer stole the entire staff. albert later sold the paper and it became the paper william randolph hearst got. what is great for me was my little moment of discovery was i found albert s memoirs with his granddaughter stored in paris. so this is the first offer albert s art of the story and it is not exactly flattering to his older brother. any of you have siblings would love this aspect. time for one more question and on will answer briefly. i miss come closer. i missed most of your presentation. but i was curious, newspapers versus media on television. i don t understand why anybody endorses a candidate? because i look at it as an objective field. why endorse a candidate in an objective field? this may be an issue of my age. when i grew up by learned how to be media savvy. the front page of the newspaper was a news. the owner who don t the editorial page express his or her opinion who would be elected and these two things don t always agree. any of you who have read the wall street journal wondered if the people on the editorial page are reading the front page because the front page talks about how financial bill will ruin america and on the next page we have to pass this bill. that was much more common. what is happening with broadcasts, the distinctions are becoming more blurred. steering networks tend to engage in what we might as older people feel this editorial was asian in the reporting and that is not the way the media originally was. there was a carvel line that divided the editorial division from the news division and the news division of reported stuff that the owners and editorial-page didn t like. but i leave you with this shot. this is why those folks enjoy owning newspapers. freedom of the press as he reminds us belongs to those who own the press. if you ever get upset about editorial in the washington times and the washington post there s an op-ed section edited by wonderful man who gets your voice in. that would be the thing pulitzer like because he was one of the first people ever to publish an article by an individual that appeared in the paper that might not agree with him. thank you. you are a delightful group. [applause] thank you on behalf of all the authors for the support you give us as writers. where we are working alone for five years and is nice to know you are i don t see why not. then coleman a contest would ve overturned it and norm coleman would get a seat. but we were with just one senator for seven months. six months. do you have any thought as to what norm coleman did not appeal to the u.s. supreme court? i m not a lawyer either, but the people who read the opinion, the supreme court opinion, said the one person, said it was unassailable, the opinion that was necessary was so tightly written that it was hard. both the both the trial court and the supreme court both acknowledged there were no equal protection issues in this recount by bush v. gore. so there really weren t any federal issues that seemed to rise to it. and i think at that point, you know, i write in the book they sort of knew what was coming because of what the supreme court argued, and when