19 Burst results for "William Randolph Hearst"
The Tech Guy
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"That's terrific. I am calling actually from a little bit overcast going on Hawaii. From beautiful. Now that's not real what's behind you, but that's probably the view out the window, right? It is actually Conan village of resort that this summer after being. Is it coming? Is it coming back? Oh my gosh. So Kona village, it was a legendary all inclusive resort. It completely remote. You couldn't have a TV, couldn't bring your phone where Steve Jobs was staying when the iPhone four scandal happened. He was there with his whole family. He had to fly, but he didn't want to. He had to fly back from Kona village to tell the world you're holding it wrong. He brought his little son, young son Reed along with him. He says, I want to show you how business is done, kid. I have a good friend who used to go to Conan village regularly. And I never went and I always wanted to go and it got blown away in the hurricane about ten years ago, so they're rebuilding it. It is. It's been under construction or reconstruction for three or four years now and the intention is to be opening this summer. I will be there the minute they open. All my life wanted to stay there because Steve Jobs about the other person I know stays there is William Randolph Hearst the third. I'd like to go to he told me it's a good place to go, so I want to, I want to go there. Are you affiliated with it in any way? Can you get me in? That's why I'm here on island. In fact, I am part of the opening
Liberty Station
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on Liberty Station
"This psyops and these tactics have been used throughout history, another instance is the Spanish-American War. So we just get through the Civil War. And word starts to come into America of Cuba. The people in Cuba want freedom from Spain. And they have a ten year war and the Spanish send over this terrible governor who more or less rounds up the people, sort of like January 6th and has a quarter of a million people. A huge percentage of the country of Cuba is in these concentration camps and they're starving to death. And the Americans were asleep. We don't really get to 90 miles off our coast, but we're not. And so you had the publishers of two major newspapers, one was William Randolph Hearst, and he had the New York journal, and the other was just Joseph Pulitzer, and he had the New York world. And that's the poetry prize Pulitzer. And so they began to print articles persuasively to want to get the Americans to realize what's going on in Cuba. And it got called yellow journalism because the paper they printed on was inexpensive, cheap paper, and after a few days it would turn yellow. Anyway, one of the stories Hearst sent his illustrator Frederic Remington to Cuba. Now they had not developed the technology to print photographs yet. And so they would have etchings that were drawn by illustrators. And so Frederick Remington was sent to Cuba and to draw pictures of these starving people that were emaciated and Hurst cabled Remington in 1897 and said, you furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. Now, again, from that point of view, it was you study it. There was a legitimate injustice going on in Cuba, and America, 90 miles away, had a responsibility to get down there and free these people, which they eventually did. But that the media began to realize it had power. And so the. It developed more and more through World War II and then with the advent of television and movies and then with the Cold War, especially these tactics were being used and now we have the Internet and one of the things during World War II.
American Scandal
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on American Scandal
"Just finished our series on Patricia Hearst, a story that got an enormous amount of media attention in its time. How much do you think the news coverage then resembles what we're discussing today in terms of true crime? Well, I think certainly in 1974, no one was having a discussion about the ethics of true crime. That is still a very recent conversation. And I think we're still developing what that even means. I do think that if a Patricia Hearst case happened today, I would like to think that we would be more responsible in terms of how the media would cover that case in terms of understanding the dynamics of victims becoming perpetrators and abusive elements and what was actually happening. I'm enough of a skeptic to think that there might be more similarities in media coverage today versus how the case went almost 50 years ago because of how, let's say, the Gabby petito disappearance and ultimate murder became such a social media spectacle and the fact that even as she was chronicling what was happening on Instagram and trying to get away from her fiance and abuser that she was then deemed to be the abuser in a particular law enforcement situation. also comparing it to coverage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and how it seemed as if there was a massive misunderstanding of what happened to Amber Heard, and she was painted as a perpetrator in ways that were a lot more binary than I think the truth is bearing out. So I think that there has been some improvement, but we still have a long way to go. If Patricia Hearst's story were to happen today. And you've hinted that you're afraid that much of the coverage would be similar to what it was 50 years ago. In one way do you think it might be radically different? I do think there would be a greater understanding that she was a victim and that her behavior after she became known as quote Tanya and participated in the robbery. That there was this greater question about how much she was actually able to consent to what happened. And the fact that she was 19 and that yes, a 19 year old in 1974 is different than a 19 year old in 2022. But at the same time, you're really a young person trying to figure out the world and still somewhat immature and what happened after doesn't negate the fact that she was kidnapped. And a great trauma was done to her and affected her for the rest of her life. And so I can understand too why in the aftermath that she wanted to take control of her own story and that all the attempts to transform her story into entertainment by other people, while she's still here. She's still alive. She is making her way in the world and so who gets to write her story. I think a lot interestingly enough of an essay that Amanda Knox, who was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Meredith kercher in Italy, what she wrote after there was this film stillwater that was not so loosely based on her case. And she wrote about what it was like for her as a person to see this narrative, which was often wrong, just be perpetuated over and over and over again. So I think maybe the lessons that we can learn about the Patricia Hearst case is who actually gets to control their own story. And how do we both accept that, but also perhaps get around that if that only turns out to be part of a larger story? You bring up Amanda Knox and her experience in watching her fictionalized true account in film and how Patricia her seems to have been able to take control of her narrative, which is interesting because a Hollywood film about the Hearst kidnapping was planned, but then canceled in 2018 after Patricia criticized the sensationalizing of her capture and rape. Why do you think she was successful in taking control of the narrative and others like Amanda Knox were not? I'm being considered Patricia's last name. I mean, the hearse name still carries some degree of power. She was a descendant of William Randolph Hearst who was the famous newspaper baron and he was a rich guy and that wealth carried through to subsequent generations. You also see the hearse name with respect to magazines that the company owns, and so I think having that name and having access to power means that someone like her will be more listened to than someone like Amanda Knox, who at least at the time that everything was happening did not have the same degree of power. Now that she has been a civilian and out in the world for a number of years, she has podcasts of her own. She has written books. She's written other articles, that is a way of amassing autonomy and power, but it only goes so far. So it's very difficult. Most people do not have that kind of buy in that Patricia Hearst has, but on the other hand, having that sense of power does not negate when actual harm and trauma is done to a person. So rich people are just as likely to be traumatized as poor people are. It's just a question of how they can deal with it in the aftermath. And what resources and access they have. I'm glad you mentioned William Randolph Hearst, Patricia's grandfather, because it's not lost on anybody that he might be one of the grandfathers of true crime. So let's talk about the history of the genre. How long has true crime been a favorite genre? I mean, I like to say that true crime has been having a moment for at least three centuries, if not more. I often date it to the pamphlets that the preacher caught may their wrote, he became known as someone who was involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Benjamin Franklin, when he was working at a newspaper, he often wrote lurid true crime narratives. This certainly picked up steam in the 19th century and the birth of the tabloids. But yes, Hearst as a newspaper man loved the lurid and crime narratives definitely sold. We've always been fascinated by crime and especially when there's a new developing technology be it newspapers or radio or television or the Internet or social media, crime seems to kind of get piggybacked alongside it. So I think of radio and various crimes in the 1920s. There was a murder of a preacher and his mistress, the hall mills case, about a hundred years ago, certainly with the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby in the 1930s, the fact that there was available technology, like the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"He is a science journalist and author of the book how minds change the surprising science of belief opinion and persuasion. He is a two time winner of the William Randolph Hearst award, he is also the author of you are not so smart, a bestselling 2009 book about cognitive foibles and behavioral errors. He has written produced and recorded a 6 hour documentary, exploring the history of the idea of the word genius, David mcraney, welcome to Bloomberg. Wow, thank you so much for inviting me. This is fantastic. Well, I've been a fan of your work and I thought when this book came out, it was a great opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with you. Before we get to the book, let's talk a little bit about your background. You started as a reporter covering everything from Hurricane Katrina, Tess rockets for NASA. Halfway home for homeless people with HIV, what led you to becoming focused on behavior and psychology. Well, I thought this was what I was going to do for a living. I went to school at the university to study psychology. I thought it would be a therapist. I got that degree as I was doing that. There was a sign up on campus that said opinionated and big Helvetica font. And I was like, yeah, I am. That seems to be, what is that? And they said, come down to the offices of the student newspaper, I went down there and said, how does this work? They said, just email us stuff. You have an opinion piece you want to do. I'm like, um, and I wrote a really sophomore thing about Starbucks on campus because it was just about to come into campus. And I wrote that and wrote a couple other things. And then I was like, oh wait, this could be fun. So I switched to journalism and went all the way through the student paper that went into print journalism and TV journalism. But once I reached a certain point in that world, I wasn't able to write anymore. I was doing editing and helping other people and I just really wanted to write something and it just so happened blogs were becoming very popular at that time. I just happened to be there when they blew up on the point of like they got book deals and I started a blog called you were not so smart about all the cognitive biases and fallacies and heuristics that I really enjoyed. And I wrote a piece about brand loyalty that went viral and the rest is history that was asked to write a book about it and then I was like, oh, I will continue playing in this world. But the podcast to promote the second book because the first book did so well they said do another really quickly and I did. You are less dumb now you're now less dumb. You are now so happy to sort of a podcast right when podcasts were becoming a thing. I sent an email to Mark mirren because he had the number one podcast. I said, how do you do this? And he actually sent me an email with a bullet point. Really? With links to Amazon items and no kidding. And he was very nice and I got all the stuff and started it up and that has now become sort of the centerpiece because that's I was there when I got going. So there's a quote I want to share because it sets up everything. And I'm sort of cheating. It's from towards the end of the book. We do this because we are social primates who gather information in a biased manner for the purpose of arguing for our individual perspectives in a pooled information environment within a group that deliberates on shared plans of actions towards a collective goal. Kind of sums up everything we do in a show does. A lot of work with years of work within that little paragraph that a lot of that comes from something that's called the interactions model. There's sort of a peanut butter and chocolate have come up in this book because I've spent years talking to people through or not so smart. And I would argue that we're flawed and irrational, right? And there's a big pop psychology movement for that about a decade ago. Things like predictably irrational and even the work of kahneman tavr, like a lot of the interpretation of that was like, oh, look how dumb we are, right? And look how easily fooled we're. Look how bad we are with probabilities. And one of the inception moments of this book was I did a lecture in someone who came up to me afterward. Her father had slipped into a conspiracy theory, and she asked, what do I do about that? And I told her nothing. But I felt gross saying it. I felt like I was locking my keys in my car. I felt like I think I know enough to tell you that, but I know I don't, and also I don't want to be that pessimistic and cynical. And at the same time, the attitudes and norms around same sex marriage in the United States had flipped very rapidly. Well, we're going to go into that also. So those two things together, I was like, I want to understand this better, so I invited one of my podcasts Hugo mercier and he teamed up with Dan sperber and they created something called
Stuff You Should Know
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"So chuck, if you'll notice the first three movies in our list, the first three films that changed everything happened in 1925, 26 and 27. Things were changing fast. They really were. I mean, by leaps and bounds. But you can also make the case that there was a lot of new ground to cover. So just about anybody who did anything new that was noteworthy. Yeah, it was a big innovation. Yeah. Harder to innovate these days. It is. And if you'll notice on the list, the earliest ones were like technical editing innovations. Now starting with Citizen Kane from 1941, we start to get into innovations in storytelling, which is a lot more nuanced than doing your own stunts or using a Montage or something. It's figuring out how to tell a story in a much less linear narrative fashion. Yeah. And Citizen Kane was one of the early ones to pioneer a non linear narrative. Yeah, did you saw this? Yeah, yeah, okay. I didn't see it till, I mean, it was probably like probably about 15 years ago. But like way later than you would think I would have seen this as a big film buff. I saw it in college at a, in a film class. If you sign up for a film class, you're going to study citizen cancer. Exactly. Pretty much. And I finally found out what rosebud was. Don't ruin it. I won't. But it is a landmark film in every way, and it is often been top of best films of all time list for great reasons. One of which, like you said, the non linear narrative was really unique thing at the time. Although flashback wasn't brand new, it was the first time it had been this extensive and effective in the story. Yeah, because it's substantial enough that it really cuts up the flow. Oh yeah. You know, it's not like a quick flashback and they come back in the actors like staring off into space to transition back into the present again. I mean, it was all over the place. Yeah. Some of the more concrete cinematic landmarks, one was using deep focus. Director of photography Greg toland legend used he had used deep focus before on a movie called long voyage home, but it's all over the place in Citizen Kane. And that basically means if you see a shot where something very far away is in focus in the shot, basically where everything's in focus. Or the background in the foreground area in focus. So you can press pause and look around. Exactly. Like you're sticking your head into a box. Yeah, that's called deep focus. Yeah. And it was brand new as far as citizen gained goes is how extensive it used it. One of the other things was off center framing. It was a pretty common thing to just center whatever the main action was either the character or the object and Citizen Kane had a lot of things where the main focus of the scene, the character maybe even offscreen. Which was really weird at the time. People didn't know what to think of it. Right. Expressionistic lighting. Back then everything they just lit it. They were like, make sure everything's well lit. Yeah. But there's an auto preminger also like a big pioneer with that. Yeah, I think so. With dial in for murder, I think he directed that. Was that Hitchcock? I think that was Hitchcock. Was it okay, well auto premature directed stuff like that though, right? He used moody lighting and shadows and stuff a lot. I probably miss that up. People are going to be dial them for murder. I think it was preminger. Okay. But Orson Welles, of course, I don't think we even mentioned that too, wrote, directed, started and produced, and I think even edited it Citizen Kane. Yeah, just assumed everybody knew that, you know? Yeah. He came from the theater where you create a mood with lighting, only certain parts of the stage. So he brought that into the movies. And it was very evocative and set the mood well. And people are like, man, why are we lighting everything all bright all the time? Look at Citizen Kane, which is really worked. Yeah. A couple of other things. One of which I know you will appreciate sir is that he pretty much invented the wipe. Oh, the star white, not the star white. But it followed. Yeah, the star wipe followed. Which I know is your favorite transition in cinema. Because it almost makes a sound, you know? And one of the ways I want to say you're right now and for murder, it was Hitchcock. Oh, was it? Yeah. Okay. What was premature? Did you look that up? He did one called Laura, the man with the golden arm. It's not who I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of a director named Otto, who directed in like the 20s or 30s. In a directed like moody, like moody movies. Murder movies. I feel more. Yes. Film noir. That's exactly what I was going for. And I don't remember who it was. Maybe his name was auto Filmore. He's French. And then one final thing, of course, you could study Citizen Kane for a week in a film class. So this is an overview. But the low angle shots, people didn't use a lot of low or high angle shots back then. It was kind of just from straight on and Orson Welles even dug out cut out the floor, a lot of times to get the camera lower. Wow. And for the first time, we saw ceilings in view. In a movie because quite often, things were shot on a sound stage where you don't have ceilings. And he wanted those low angle shots. So they used fabric most times to act as a ceiling. But very effective shots of from below of Orson Welles as it wasn't exactly William Randolph Hearst, but it was an approximation of William Randolph Hearst. Right. It's a very effective low angle stuff that now, we take for granted all these things. But there would be no Pulp Fiction in that non linear storytelling if there was no. Well, maybe somebody would have done it, but maybe eventually, but he did the first and that's why it was innovative. Exactly. It's Fritz Lang that I was. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Fritz Lang. Metropolis. And M, just them. That's okay. Yeah, it's all making sense now. You get confused. Yeah, but you were
History That Doesn't Suck
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Protected from a cyberattack. And that, that's the sound of a financial system that's digitally secured from bad actors. Right now, there's an invisible war being fought on a digital battlefield that impacts what we do every day. That's why at periton, we do that can't be done to help protect the vital systems we rely on, because if we don't, the alternative is unimaginable, periton. Let me ask you one final category of similarity. And this one's, this one's interesting. Misinformation in public and political discourse. Yep. One of my favorite topics. 'cause I'll tell you Lindsay, it grates at me when the term fake news is touted as though it's a new thing. Yellow journalism to go right back to the progressive era to tie into that. The idea that it is new that a media entity would play fast and loose with the facts stretch things. That's been done from time in memoriam. One of the great casualties I fear is that for some that can then lead to us being so jaded that we misconstrue every source as being equally invalid that they're all fast and loose when there are of course careful journalists who do a very good job. I mean, I could even push past the progressive era. I mean, the way that events leading up to the American Revolution were discussed. They had a very different tone in the way they were published in London versus the way they were published in Boston. And that's not unique to the American experience either. It's always been the case that there are those that hold themselves to a high standard and are going to maintain that their integrity must supersede any other agenda. And then you're going to have people like William Randolph Hearst, who, in his desire to oust Joseph pulsar as the king of the mountain in the New York publishing game, and in his interest in pushing the Spanish-American War, though, it is fair that it's pointed out.
History That Doesn't Suck
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Me ask you one final category of similarity. And this one's, this one's interesting. Misinformation in public and political discourse. Yep. One of my favorite topics. 'cause I'll tell you, Lindsay, I it grates at me when the term fake news is touted as though it's a new thing. Yellow journalism to go right back to the progressive era to tie into that. The idea that it is new that a media entity would play fast and loose with the facts stretch things. That's been done from time and memoriam. One of the great casualties I fear is that for some that can then lead to us being so jaded that we misconstrue every source as being equally invalid that they're all fast and loose. When there are, of course, careful journalists who do a very good job. I mean, I could even push past the progressive era. I mean, the way that events leading up to the American Revolution were discussed, they had a very different tone and the way they were published in London versus the way they were published in Boston. And that's not unique to the American experience either. It's always been the case that there are those that hold themselves to a high standard and are going to maintain that their integrity must supersede any other agenda. And then you're going to have people like William Randolph Hearst, who, in his desire to oust Joseph Pulitzer as the king of the mountain in the New York publishing game and in his interest in pushing the Spanish-American War, though it is fair that it's pointing out. It's often overstated his influence. He likely did not single handedly bring that about. As much as he might like that narrative. But it's always been there. And the need for people to be critical thinkers and assess their sources. That has always been present. It's always going to be present. I think the interesting consideration there is the democratization of sharing information in the present. Now that would be a change in the system as a whole, that our simple pattern seeking brains are rather unchanging by and large genetic pool is having to deal with in a new way. But what we're still just seeing yet another manifestation of something that humanity has lived through from time immemorial. We've been talking at length about similarities that absolutely exist between our age and some other age, but we've also kind of looked at this idiom and said, well, it's not exactly true. The history isn't doesn't repeat exactly. Twain might be the most correct. And the lessons that are available to us in history are ones that are much more person oriented individual oriented because the complexity of the planet and our societies will not allow for those exact circumstances to repeat. But I want to and I don't quote marks often. But he brought something and I wanted to get your take on it and we'll leave it at that. So Marx remarked talking about philosopher Hegel that Hegel had said somewhere that all the great world's historical facts and people appear twice. But Marx said they appear twice the first as tragedy and the second time as farce. What do you make of that? Well, I always find
History Unplugged Podcast
Deborah Cohen on the Journalists Who Changed the News Media Irrevocably
"The people in your book are mostly forgotten as you know, but at their time they were household names. Can you tell me briefly about Dorothy Thompson, John Guthrie, HR knickerbocker, and Vincent Sheehan? Absolutely. So Dorothy Thompson amassed a string of firsts. She was the first American woman to run a major overseas news bureau. She was the first American foreign correspondent to be kicked out of Hitler's Germany in 1934, and she was the first woman political columnist to have a syndicated column, political column of her own. And in the late 30s, she's reaching 8 to 10 million readers with her thrice weekly columns. John Gunther makes his name with a book inside Europe published in 1936 that this taboo breaking behind the scenes account of the foibles of European leaders. So Hitler is given to crying Jags. He reports and has as Gunther puts it an Oedipus complex as big as a house, Mussolini is very superstitious, and so on and so forth. And this is a huge book of the time. It sells more than a million copies. It's not just a bestseller in the United States. It's also a bestseller across Europe. And it's a book that makes Gunther's name. HR knickerbocker comes from Texas. He's born in Texas. And he's the son of a southern methodist minister. He always carries a Bible in his suitcase, though he can swear in all of the major European languages. He's reportedly the highest paid foreign correspondent in the world, as I said, mostly working for William Randolph Hearst's international news service and among other accomplishments he becomes the bet noir of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. And then there's Vincent Sheehan, so she and is reporter he was working for a number of different outlets among them the Chicago Tribune and he writes a book entitled personal history, published in 1935 at wins the first national book award for biography inaugural award. And this book really captured the zeitgeist of the era in a way that no other book does. What she and his writing about is his own quest as a journalist. To figure out the relationship between his life and world events, or as he puts it, the one life that he has in the millions of lives into which it's cast.
On The Media
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on On The Media
"Men on board, 7 of them drowned. And crane was stuck out there in this story, he calls himself the correspondent. There was this comradeship that the correspondent, for instance, who had been taught to be cynical of men, knew even at the time, was the best experience of his life. But no one said that it was so. No one mentioned it. The somewhat hard boiled suspicious, sometimes cynical crane. Had a transformative experience there. You know, just to sum up his approach to the world, is that the gods of vanished, we live in a meaningless cosmos. It's not as if nature is cruel. Nature is just simply indifferent. This could lead to a nihilistic position about things. If nothing matters, then why be good? And what has work tells us is that he says no. What human beings do with and among one another counts for everything. Even if we mean nothing in the cosmos, we are the measure of all things for ourselves. We can create extraordinary moments of cooperation and solidarity that give life meaning or we can divide, go at each other and make life hell. I think this is the push pull conflicts that he's dealing with, particularly in the last years of his writing life. And it's this position is very close to Camus. Existentialism, you know, before the fact. The story, the open boat, reminded you of one of crane's poems, a man said to the universe. Sarah, I exist. However, replied the universe. The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation. That's crane's wit at work too. He could be so deadpan, ironic when he chose to be. It was such a struggle, and not just with his health, but with his finances. And the stress of it, you convey incredibly well, Paul. Let's talk about the society of his final days. Our listeners, some of them may not know cranes name, but they are far likely to have heard of his close friends, Joseph Conrad, Henry James. He was friends with H G wells and Ford Maddox Ford. Not to mention, obviously his erstwhile fans and frenemies, like Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Why do you reckon crane has been mostly forgotten while the other writers from his day are more red and remembered? The answer to that question is simply that he lives such a short life. He was a comet who flashed across the sky, and then he disappeared. He never gained a real toehold in the literary world. All of these other writers lived reasonably long lives, and they had time to develop time to establish themselves in their different cultures. Henry James, you never sold that many copies of his books. He was not a popular success. James real success has come in the many years following his death. And now he's considered a master. Then he was considered an interesting writer, but a little stuffy. Wells, we don't need to talk about. He wrote all his most famous science fiction books then during the period when he knew crane, I mean Conrad struggled terribly in the beginning, just as badly as crane had, but eventually, of course, he became recognized, but crane fell in love with Conrad's work, and he understood that Conrad was a spiritual brother. And Conrad was overpowered by crane's work. And these two became the closest of close friends. Conrad worked. I think for the rest of his life with the photograph of crane on his desk. Conrad wrote very movingly about his friendship with crane. The story he tells, I mean crane was so weak. He could barely talk. He was in a bed, overlooking the sea. He just said, I'm so tired. Conrad just stood there in the door looking at crane who was looking out the window at a boat passing by. You make reference all through the book to things that crane did first. The lack of moralizing. Dialog that in one story, you likened to Raymond Chandler. The sort of beginnings of is it fair to say stream of consciousness, following the thoughts inside of a head during a time of great stress, so many things that were later done and I think credited in the popular imagination to others, one thing that you note was that his unique ground on which he wrote was coherence and a blur. I'm glad you brought this up because it's a fascinating moment in his work. If one really wants to understand crane, one must read the journalism, whatever, however you want to define this journalism. Because some of the most pertinent statements he made are buried in these pieces for newspapers. Crane left the city for a day to write a piece for Pulitzer's world on the electric chair at sing sing. And it's called the devil's acre. Crane goes out and visits the graveyard in which the dead prisoners have been buried. There's a house at the edge of this graveyard overlooking the Hudson River. And he simply writes this. If people on this veranda ever lower their eyes from the wide river, and gaze at these tombstones, they probably find that they can just make out the inscriptions at the distance and just can't make them out at the distance. They encounter the dividing line between coherence and the blur. Now, I think this is an extraordinarily perceptive remark that line that crane and habited as a writer. And I think he's the first one to discover this territory and.
NPR's Book of the Day
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on NPR's Book of the Day
"Financial baron during the 1929 stock market crash. Then his attempt to write his own story, then his secretary's memoir, and finally the journal left by his deceased wife, Mildred. Let's ask the novelist to read from the secretary's memoir when she applies for her job. Why work at a place that makes one thing when I could work at a company that makes all things? Because that's what money is. All things. Or at least it can become all things. It's the universal commodity by which we measure all other commodities. And if money is the God among commodities, this with my upturned palm, I drew an arc that encompassed the office and suggested the building beyond it is its high temple. And India's joins us now. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you for having me an enormous pleasure. What do the four narratives help us see that let's say the omniscient voice that includes four viewpoints wouldn't? Well, the novelist concerned to a large extent with the distinction between history and fiction, the idea was to present a novel within the novel, a historical document, a memoir, and a personal journal. And recruited the reader as a textual detective of sorts, have them ask themselves how reality itself may be the effect of a textual construction may be the effect of different narratives. Devil is not flattered to see his life become the stuff of fiction. In a novel written by a man named Harold vanner any more than William Randolph Hearst, like Citizen Kane. He Orson Welles film. But in a sense, can you understand that? I can understand that. And I try to be very sympathetic to this character. I tried at all times to avoid creating a straw man. I tried to give him humanity..
The Tim Ferriss Show
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on The Tim Ferriss Show
"Thank you so much. I'm very excited to be here. I thought we would start with something we chatted about just a little bit before pressing record. And that is the Harvard lampoon. I have this fascination with the Harvard lampoon. And I would just love to perhaps offer you the mic to introduce the Harvard lampoon to people and also describe how you entered the fray. How you actually became part of the Harvard language. The lampoon is this very old institution at Harvard. It was founded in 1876, and it is this weird satirical comedy magazine that has just been kind of plugging along for now almost a 150 years. And there's a couple of interesting things about it. One of them is that the alumni are numerous and very high achieving. William Randolph Hearst was in the lampoon. And so was John Updike and so was George Plimpton and a million comedy writers from the 80s to the present who have written for lettermen in The Simpsons and SNL and all these shows. Conan O'Brien was the president of the Harvard lampoon twice, which is a very rare thing. So it's just this kind of weird little humor outlet that people who were obsessed with comedy kind of learn about at an early age. I learned about it from just noticing that it kept popping up when you would see certain movies that you thought were funny or like Doug Kenney wrote animal House and he was on the lampoon and Jim Downey, who was a legendary comedy writer at Letterman, I think he was Letterman's first write head writer and wrote so many of your favorite SNL sketches throughout history. He was on the Harvard lampoon. So when I applied to college, that was like on my essay for Harvard was I want to come here because I want to join the lampoon. So when I got there, that was goal number one for me was joining it and there's like an audition process. You have to write material and then you get the pool of people get to win out down and then they accept a few writers every semester. I have to imagine, by the time you got there, certainly it was thought of almost as a feeder into these careers in comedy and therefore there had to be quite a wide funnel in terms of people interested in becoming part of the lampoon. They can't accept everyone. What did the audition process look like? What constitutes the audition process? The lampoon is a pure to the extent that it could be, was a pure meritocracy. It was there were artists writers and there were business people who sold ads. And if you were trying to get on as a business person, it was like, did you sell enough ads if you did? You got on if you didn't, you didn't. If you were an artist, you drew a bunch of pieces, you were critiqued and sort of given notes by the other artists on the staff, then they voted on who their favorite artists were. Same with writing, you wrote three pieces, a comedy pieces of the subjects were up to you. You were winnowed down from the total number of people trying to get on to half that and then half again. And then they would bring 6 to 8 people to the election. And then vote. However, many that they wanted, they would vote on, this was part of the sales pitch, was that it was a meritocracy. So I decided to kind of test that theory because I was skeptical. So I submitted my pieces the first time I tried out, I submitted anonymously to the extent I could. I only wrote my first and second initial. So they didn't know whether I was male or female. They didn't know really who I was at all. And I got admitted to I made it past the first cut and they have a cocktail party for people who make it past the cuts. And I showed up and they were like, oh, you're that guy. Welcome, congratulations. And I was like, wow, they really was anonymous. They didn't know who I was. They didn't care. They just were like, are these things funnier? Are they not funny? So then you did that again. You said in three more pieces, you had got notes. There was another round of cuts, and then there were elections, and you just waited in your room for the full day, not having any idea what was going on, and then they would show up and say, yes or no. And if the answer is yes, and then you got brought into this weeklong semi, not really hazing, it's kind of a parody of a frat hazing week. But you spend a week getting indoctrinated into the world of the lampoon, and then you remember, and everything is great. The writing pieces. And this is rewinding the clock. So I recognize that this is asking a lot, but do you have any recollection with that paradox of choice situation where the topics are up to you, how you chose what you would write about? Are there any constraints like 500 words or less a thousand words or less? There were, I wish I remembered, they put a page limit on them, you know, because it's pros comedy. It's a kind of comedy writing that isn't done that much anymore. The closest analog that people might be familiar with is something like the shouts and murmurs page in The New Yorker. A lot of lampoon people have gone on to write shouts and murmurs pieces.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Crane was stuck out there in this story he calls himself the correspondent There was this comradeship that the correspondent for instance who had been taught to be cynical with men knew even at the time was the best experience of his life But no one said that it was so No one mentioned it The somewhat hard boiled suspicious sometimes cynical crane had a transformative experience there You know just to sum up his approach to the world is that the gods have vanished We live in an absurd meaningless cosmos It's not as if nature is cruel Nature is just simply indifferent This could lead to a nihilistic position about things If nothing matters then why be good and what has worked tells us is that he says no What human beings do with and among one another counts for everything Even if we mean nothing in the cosmos we are the measure of all things for ourselves We can create extraordinary moments of cooperation and solidarity that give life meaning or we can divide go at each other and make life health I think this is the push pull conflicts that he's dealing with particularly in the last years of his writing And it's this position is very close to Camus Existentialism you know before the fact The story the open boat reminded you of one of crane's poems a man said to the universe Sir I exist However replied the universe the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation That's cranes with at work too He could be so deadpan ironic when he chose to be It was such a struggle and not just with his health but with his finances And the stress of it you convey incredibly well Paul Let's talk about the society of his final days Our listeners some of them may not know crane's name but they are far likelier to have heard of his close friends Joseph Conrad Henry James He was friends with H G wells and Ford Maddox Ford not to mention obviously his erstwhile fans and frenemies like Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst Why do you reckon crane has been mostly forgotten while the other writers from his day are more red and remembered The answer to that question is simply that he lives such a short life He was a comet who flashed across the sky and then he disappeared He never gained a real toehold in the literary world All of these other writers lived reasonably long lives and they had time to develop time to establish themselves in their different cultures Henry James you never sold that many copies of his books He was not a popular success James real success has come in the many years following his death And now he's considered a master Then he was considered an interesting writer but a little stuffy Wells we don't need to talk about He wrote all his most famous science fiction books then during the period when he knew crane I mean Conrad struggled terribly in the beginning just as badly as crane had but eventually of course he became recognized but crane fell in love with Conrad's work and he understood that Conrad was a spiritual brother and Conrad was overpowered by crane's work And these two became the closest of close friends Conrad worked I think for the rest of his life with the photograph of crane on his desk Conrad wrote very movingly about his friendship with crane The story he tells I mean crane was so weak he could barely talk He was in a bed overlooking the sea He just said I'm so tired Conrad just stood there in the door looking at crane who is looking out the window at a boat passing by You make reference all through the book to things that craned it first The lack of moralizing dialog that in one story you like into Raymond Chandler The sort of beginnings of is it fair to say a stream of consciousness following the thoughts inside of a head during a time of great stress so many things that were later done and I think credited in the popular imagination to others one thing that you note was that his unique ground on which he wrote was coherence and a blur I'm glad you brought this up because it's a fascinating moment in his work If one really wants to understand crane one must read the journalism whatever however you want to define this journalism because some of the most pertinent statements he made are buried in these pieces for newspapers Crane left the city for a day to write a piece for Pulitzer's world on the electric chair It sing sing And it's called the devil's acre Crane goes out and visits the graveyard in which the dead prisoners have been buried There's a house at the edge of this graveyard overlooking the Hudson River and he simply writes this If people on this veranda ever lower their eyes from the wide river and gaze at these tombstones they probably find that they can just make out.
WABE 90.1 FM
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"So what the book is really about is the interior life of an adolescent boy What's a matter here Are you scared Scared me Of course not But a dumble question John Huston's 1951 adaptation of the red badge of courage starred Audie Murphy as the young soldier gripped with fear as he prepares for his first battle How do you know you won't run in the dank Run Me Well plenty of good enough menus Doctor is going to do great things before the fight with And the time comes they can The red page of courage describes an actual battle in the Civil War But the real conflict is the battle that teenage soldier fights with himself Crane honed his craft for fiction by writing for newspapers He was broke most of his life to make money he wrote sketches of street life By the time he was in his 20s his vignettes of the New York slums tenements and tenderloin were appearing in the big papers run by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst Cranes compact style was a major influence on earnest Hemingway and the writers who followed like novelist Russell banks That you couldn't have been a writer like me coming up in the 1950s and 60s without being influenced by crane A prose that is not florid and not rhetorically embellished that you can be as quiet as straightforward and direct as possible and still be highly dramatic Bank says cranes work as a journalist gave him access.
The Jason Stapleton Program
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on The Jason Stapleton Program
"It becomes more of an issue of an issue. And you really have to be more careful but this would be true for the flu for pneumonia. For frankly the common cold once you get up into that age bracket if you combine it with With diabetes or being overweight then the numbers just to your odds it continued to increase but even at the very high end at those seventy five to eighty five and older. Their survivability is still like ninety. Four percent i mean. That's that's insane. You talk about this not being a pandemic not being an issue. It literally isn't. There's no numbers that you can pull to justify what's being done in america reina. No numbers at all. You're living in a in a hysterical. I don't know drug induced the media immediate induced panic speaking of the media. How absolutely absolutely inept are they the the level of journalistic malpractice. It exists right now in. America is i mean. I would love to say that. It's like nothing we've ever seen before but i. I'm reading a document. The biography of william randolph hearst. Right now and this has been going on for as long as there's been newspapers they there's no such thing as an independent press somebody who tries to toe the line. Everybody's got an opinion. They had it all the way back at the turn of the century. The since the days the printing press information has been attached with opinion. But now they're coming out in the the president saying well. We have to do this to protect the children. Really do we. Now hang on. we're gonna put kids in. Mass can wear masks all day long. We're going to take them in. Line them up and force them to be inoculated with this drug. Oh by the way. Let me back up. Just one second before i get to the kids. Let's talk about people who have been vaccinated now see. I'm not telling you what to do. I don't care what you do. Because i look at the numbers and what we do know is of the people who are being hospitalized now and the people who are dying they are almost all exclusively people who have been on who are not vaccinated if you are vaccinated you have a near one hundred percent chance of surviving. The delta vary enter any of these other variants. You know they keep coming up with new variant as a scare tactic for you. Try and convince you to. You need to be worried. Oh go get your third booster. Shot your fourth your fifth big. Pharma ma'am visors making a killing since when since when did progressives in this country start taking the advice. The pharmaceutical companies the the very companies. That they h- have been challenging and fighting against and chastising for decades. Now all of a sudden you can't question their suggestions. Oh we built this virus. This we built this vaccine. That isn't really a vaccine and it looks like it wears off after about six months. Wasn't that convenient. Gotta go in and get another booster shot. Government is gonna pay for it. Their record profits coming out of those guys you wait. She's going to continue to go up and up. These guys are fat on that On the teat right now but if you get vaccinated your chances of hospitalization and death on go almost zero and in in almost in virtually every case. Well in every case i could find so i. I'm just this is anecdotal. Because i don't know i haven't seen every case but in every one i could find the people who were getting sick and dying were the very old and they had a lot of other conditions attached to it that made them highly susceptible. And this just happened to be the thing that got him. So if you're a teacher and you've had the chance to be vaccinated and you've gone and got your vaccine. Then guess what you have nothing to worry about if you don't get vaccinated that's your choice and if you the dice and you end up going to school to do your job and you get sick and you got to go to the hospital. You end up dead. That's just a personal choice. But it's not about the children. It's got nothing to do with these kids because these kids are fine. How do i know this well. Let's take a look at some of the numbers. These are the best numbers that we have so far on children and the risk of cova. This is from the american academy of pediatrics. Yes i know. One of those fake news fake news organizations spewing hysteria in trying to hide the truth we pull this up for. You just lost it there. It is so sorry the findings. Roughly five million total children have been re cases have been reported. That's roughly fifteen percent of all cases in the us and roughly six thousand seven hundred nine cases per one hundred thousand children in the population. Salossa kids have had covert. Let's roll down to the death. Rate mortality rate among states reporting that means among those states that have been reporting the cases in the deaths. Children were point zero.
Now & Then
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on Now & Then
"Industrialization is pulling the rug out from under masculine values. So people like theodore roosevelt. Who are trying to break their way into the political hierarchy in america. Feel that the republican party which is in charge of the country at the time is becoming enthralled to business interests. it's becoming effeminate. it's ruining america and it's taking it down a road that's going to destroy the country because there aren't going to be any men left well. Roosevelt is very admiring of the western cowboy imagery that grows up in contrast to that whole eastern business communist kind of idea the idea that there's individuals out there in the west working hard without asking anything from the government it's completely mythological. But after his wife and mother die on the same day in eighteen eighty four favorite fourteenth eighteen eighty four. He picks up and he goes to his ranch and dakota territory and he begins to build his chops not as sort of an dandy from the east with his little glasses but rather as a western cowboy and one of the things that happens. Is those young men want to go ahead and take control the republican party and move the country away from its increasing focus on industrialization and on the wealth moving upward. But they can't get a toehold and what finally give some away in is a humanitarian crisis in cuba. Okay so what happens is cuba is a colony of the spanish government at the time and cuba is experiencing a really horrific humanitarian crisis in part. Because there's an attempt among the cuban people to push off the spanish colonizers and the spanish get frustrated by this and put in a new commander. Who wants to go ahead and break the back of the cuban resistance once and for all so he goes ahead and he puts over the island. What's called a run concentrate. O- policy which is essentially concentrating individuals in the towns and in the process of that the argument is that you're supposed to go into the towns. But if you don't go into the town we're going to assume you're a rebel and hang you so what this does is it. Concentrates people in the towns in cuba where there's not adequate food or water or shelter of course or the conditions are very unsanitary. So people in cuba start to die in huge numbers so at the same time as this is going on in eighteen ninety six eighteen ninety seven. The newspapers back in america. Grab hold of this idea and they construct a narrative and so they create this narrative of atrocities in cuba that headline their newspapers there. Two leading editors in this period who are pushing along this line this narrative. One of them is william randolph hearst. Who is the editor of the new york journal. Another is joseph pulitzer whose the editor of the new york world they are among the people who begin a strain of journalism or at least it begins to be called in this period yellow journalism which means journal of that really isn't grounded on legitimate well researched news but really is grounded on eye catching headlines..
TechNation Radio Podcast
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on TechNation Radio Podcast
"Today on technician journalist. Jason goni joins us to talk about the woman who smashed codes a true story of love. Spies in the unlikely heroine. Who outwitted america's enemies. Then on technician. Health dr mirko tagliavini from sign nexus he talks about serious invasive fungal infections and their approach to treatment technician has underwritten in part by mind k. A global software development force in a world where every business can be global on the web at mine k. dot com. Jason forgo knee starts his story in the year nineteen sixteen. The place is tiny huntington indiana on the banks of the wabash. The person is a young twenty-three-year-old schoolteacher a'daughter of quakers has kind of a classic american store in a lot of ways of bright young woman. Elizabeth smith from a large quaker family in the mid west. She was the last of nine kind of a sickly kid She's very smart. She loved poetry growing up and she ended up going to a liberal arts college studying literature. She studied poetry poems of tennyson. The plays of shakespeare she graduate and she got the job that was kind of available for a lot of women to to get in that era. was just kind of the end of the line for bright young woman which was school teacher and she taught high school in a small town in indiana very much like the small town where she grew up but the thing was with. Elizabeth says she was ambitious and she was brave and she was bored with being a schoolteacher. And so what. what a combination. So one day. In june nineteen sixteen. She she up and quit her job as the teacher interest to the big city to chicago to look for something. More unusual is what she said and she ended up having a completely chance meeting in chicago with an eccentric gilded. Age tycoon that absolutely transformed her life but not only her life ended up. Transforming the shape of the twentieth century. Now that was george as it. Fabian fabian fabian. And he had this state riverbank which is just just outside chicago. Or maybe it's part of chicago now for all i know instill there. He was eccentric. I mean he funded all. He's a tycoon as they say in those days and he he had a hobby of science and he had a hobby of this and a hobby of that. What did he want her to do when she came to survey jordan. Fabian was similar to other gilded. Age tycoons in that he had more money than god and he could kind of create his own kingdom around himself with his own rules and that he was he was like william randolph hearst. He was like andrew carnegie. But what was different about george. Fabian is that whereas those guys would spend their money on sort of impressionist art work or building castles. Feeding was really interested in science. He was interested in discovering the secrets of nature that had not yet been discovered and although he was a high school dropout he was very intelligent and yet all of this money at his disposal to essentially build a scientific laboratory on his private mansion which which he called riverbank laboratories this is three hundred fifty acres outside of chicago and so riverbank became under his direction. Kind of like half of a rich man's fantasy land and half scientific laboratories similar to thomas edison's menlo park louds or nikola tesla's private laboratory. It was a place where you know in any given weekend. Teddy roosevelt might be there. Strolling the grounds talking with fabian. About agriculture famous actresses of the day would be. they're lily lanktree and billie burke rich people sort of enjoying their leisure time but there would also be some of the greatest scientists in the country. They're working on discovering the secrets of nature. And that's why george fabian. Elizabeth smith on the spot. It's because one of his obsessions was in trying to discover what he thought. Were secret messages hidden in the works of shakespeare and he knew that Elizabeth was bright and that she had studied shakespeare and that was enough for him and so he hired her on the spot and she went to work in this kind of very strange world looking for secret messages encrypted in shakespeare exactly. Yes so the idea. Was that shakespeare's plays contained a number of messages that were written in cipher by somebody. Who was not william shakespeare theory. Was that the place had actually been written by one of shakespeare's contemporaries. Gyn into sir francis bacon and jordan. Fabian believed in a lot of people at that time believed Mark twain believed this and other famous authors. Believe this that bacon had had really written these plays in that he had smuggled proof of his authorship inside the plays themselves in the very original printings of shakespeare's plays in the seventeenth century and fading believed that these secret messages could be discovered that they could be Unearthed and it could be revealed to the world through the art of Of code breaking which is nothing less than discovering a secret messages without knowing the key and so this was the project that elizabeth began with. This was the very start of her Of her career in code breaking was trying to find a essentially the messages placed by a ghost in the works of shakespeare. Hey it's a job You probably just say you had a job when you wrote home to. Your parents didn't say. Look what i'm trying to do better than teaching high school teaching high school and shortly there when she came there she She met her husband to be william. Friedman who is a geneticist negative cultural geneticist. Just another sort of classic american element to the story to people from completely different worlds on one hand. You have elizabeth smith twenty three years old from a large quaker family in the mid west. She meets a young man. Twenty four years. Old from a jewish family. In pittsburgh william friedman He had studied genetics and he was one of these scientists who had been brought to riverbank by this crazy tycoon. Because he knew something about science. William was breeding fruit flies in a in a little laboratory inside of a windmill at riverbank and Fabian had brought him there to try to create new kinds of strains of corn that might have some agricultural use but but ultimately William also had another skill. He was really good with photography and the shakespeare project Involved taking close up images of very old books and enlarging them to try to find these secret messages. That were planted there. So william got roped into this kind of shakespeare project to and meanwhile elizabeth smith was working on this project and they started working on it together and they were they were thrown in together At a very early time this riverbank adventure that elizabeth was having and and he just kind of instantly clicked. You know they had a bond They love talking to each other and they love to sit across the table from each other looking for these secret messages in that bond only strengthen the more time that they spent with each other and within a year they were married. I like how you refer to them as a duo wasn't just like you were a couple of we're going to Together we're cutting this and yeah that's very much how it was for them is that is that You know individually. They were both brilliant but together they were more than some of their parts. They felt that if they were working together they could be four times as good or even more is there was just something about Their brains that kind of connected and clicked. And i think this happens a lot of the time when people are falling in love right. This is an element of falling in love with another human beings. You discover that you share the same brainwaves that that you are maybe finishing each other's sentences and and with elizabeth and william there was this additional element of of of learning how to uncover secret messages at the same time they were falling in love and and ultimately that became an element of their love letters to each other They started to write each other letters that were in code and they would include these little sign off at the end of the letters that are remarkable to look out one hundred years later. They still packs such a such a punch Did you decode them. Yes they're not some of the some of the hardest..
WBEZ Chicago
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"Are you ready to play? I am so ready. Here we go. Your first quote is the very last words of a very long speech. Thank you for your patience. Who ended his first address to Congress with that stirring note of humility President Joe Biden president Joe Biden Yes side and delivered his first speech of his presidency to a joint session on Wednesday, but to a very limited audience because of covert there were on Lee, a few 100 legislators and no special guests at all. Sorry, Hero, Fireman's daughter. You have to fall asleep somewhere else this year. I'm sure you guys watched it attentively. Well, since no tweeted it Yeah. Carson shots every time, he said. America super did not watch it. And I got to tell you like I've recently found these amazing CBD edibles that really knocked me right out, so I didn't need to watch it. Um That's why it was such a good speech, Helen because after four years of everything, Gle Day being an onslaught of mess, everyone's like Oh, bothering open me to sleep. Nothing. Give us nothing, Joe. I thought it was a great touch of the very end when he read us all. Goodnight, Moon. Right. Thank you. Pop Pop, by the way, was in historic evening because sitting behind the president as he delivered this Congressional address were, of course, Vice President Harris Speaker Pelosi. It was so genuinely moving toe look behind the president of the United States and see Two people who were not Mike Pence. It inspirational wasn't it really was that and then, of course. After the his speech, Senator Tim Scott gave the Republican response. From the MTV Math Free Spring Break. House and Jacksonville woman Mitch McConnell did a body shot off him. Yes. Oh, all right here. Eliza is your next quote. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! It was someone in New York, responding to the new CDC guidelines that came out this week, saying vaccinated people will no longer need to do what outdoors where match exactly Right Master are coming off. Are you ready? Is your lower jaw in beach shape? New CDC Guidance means vaccinate Americans can now go outdoors without masks and even associate outdoors with other vaccinated people without masks. Have you guys done this yet? Have you? Have you released yourself into the great outdoors? I am so excited about this because as someone who is single and thirsty I am so sick of like hitting on dudes who, like, look really hot from the mask up, and then they pull the mask off. And it's like the X Wow. I didn't realize that your nose and you talk about guys who are covert hot. Yeah, Like they say the eyes are the And go to this. No. I did not know that the lower third of the face was doing all the heavy lifting. I did not know I have to say it it it just it feels so good. But it feels so wrong like I have. We have gone to the houses of other vaccinated people and been inside in person without masks, and I got to tell you That feels dirtier than if we were doing a masked key party. Really? Yes, actually conversing sharing air standing near somebody sitting at a table with them seeing their face. It's just It feels wrong. Have you have you guys you've heard? I don't know this joke saying, Oh, my God, What am I gonna do? I needed a new excuse to get out of social gatherings. And I'm like, Are you kidding me? After a year and a half, just I'm so eager to be the awkward person of the party who's standing in the corner with nothing to say, wishing to go home. That's I dream of that. Are you kidding? Peter? I can't wait to be in a crowded room in the corner staring at my phone just like that. Wow, wishing there was some place up E long for that feeling, I realized that is my fun. It's just wanting to go home and thinking about being in bed. That's me. Turn it up. It makes bed better when you get there, right. It's true. It's true. Some space you gotta make bed want you and you want bad and that has not been the case during this pans aren't always there so easy for bed. I get in bed like you're here again, Girl. Like what? What else That is in two hours. That is so sick of me. Very good. Eliza. Here is your last quote. If we're kind and polite, the world will be right as I'm sure I don't need to tell you that was Paddington. The bear. His classic lines from the movie Paddington, too. Which just toppled what movie and was named the greatest movie of all time in its place. Citizen Kane citizen came. That's right. Citizen Kane is no longer in the greatest movie ever made that title, according to the review aggregator site. Rotten Tomatoes is now Bestowed on Paddington to film purists are upset. They say that since Paddington to is, of course, the sequel The Fair Comparison should be to Citizen Kane to the legend of Rose Buds. Gold. I don't want to don't want to spoil this for anybody who hasn't seen Paddington to yet, but rose, but is the name of his hat? Sorry. So Ron Tomatoes is very popular side and it summarizes critical opinion. It comes up with a total score for films. And what happened was this week, they added to their reviews of Citizen Kane, this obscure review that was written 80 years ago and more or less lost when they added that score to the average it lowered citizens came score enough so that Paddington too Took the title, which is weird, of course, because both movies are based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. It's about time, though, the Citizen Kane got knocked off the pedestal. May I Have you seen Cool Runnings? Citizen Kane is not even the best movie about sledding. Yeah. Wow, Truth actually, detective, But I gotta say the whole method that of rotten tomatoes does this by is like if there's a negative review, it knocks it down. So the thing that just nobody hated ends up being the best movie of all time, That's like, you know. Well, let's look at the You know the greatest beverages in the world and water wins because nobody hates it. Really?.
MyTalk 107.1
"william randolph hearst" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"Wonder if you guys saw the resemblance to He looks like Steve Patterson. Oh, my God. Shut that. Okay. I just thought, Wow, There's Steve s so anyway, That was another thing. I'm getting in my mind. And then the other thing, it's the little details sometimes. You know that I like how he portrayed the passing of time with the newspaper and also with a Susie a second wife doing the puzzles, But I could not get over the fact of how big and thick those puzzle pieces were. And how frustrating that puzzle must have been to put together because it was like a million pieces. Next. That big ass fire place that I was just like, Whoa! Like using innocent just but the fish house inside. Yeah, that was like you could put a house inside that fireplace. It was huge. What did you think about him? Forcing Susie to be an opera singer when she didn't want to. That really made me mad, kind of which it might be a sign of that might be a sign of good writing and good acting, or I don't know what it was, but it really bugged me all about him. Yes. So William Randolph Hearst had an affair with a woman called Marion Davies, who was it's kind of like about that. Oh, because that same situation? Yes. So that's why Hurst was so mad about this movie and tried to get it stopped and all this stuff I tried to get the negatives burned and Yeah, I do know that the controlling of the press the way Charlie did was a lot like Hearst. Hearst did some straight up evil things with his newspapers. If you're so quiet, I want to hear it. Come on. I'm just listening. I'm listening. 8 16, If you've just tuned in, we're doing forced movie reviews The classics talking about Citizen Kane will have to continue this a little bit later. We're gonna take a break when we come back Elizabeth recent the jugular. My talk 1071. Hi, everybody. It's Jason Live for skin Rejuvenation clinic. There are so many great special's happening at skin Rejuvenation Clinic in the month of January, So it is your time. Well, you know, they say Here's the cliche. New Year new you.
The Frankie Boyer Show
This is the essential guide to manners
"The author of several books including a exposes in excess. And we're so thrilled you're with us today. Your new book is out, and it is called. What would MRs Astor do? And it is such a pleasure. So let's talk about MRs Astor, and who she was. And what's what are we missing today as as as most people listening to this may not know, MRs Astor was. Cranky. They had good to talk to you. And I to heard from my mother who do you think you are MRs. Took a while. And we could say she was the Queen of New York society. And all America, followed her lead. It was about how you conduct yourself. How you behave at the best your manners. Your speaking voice. How you should be with other people how you should be at a ball or on the street or at a restaurant. And let's remember that was a time of many many you pencils at the table. What was the fish for? What was the cheese knife? Mrs Astor new, and if you wanted to be a respectable person in America in the late eighteen hundreds you better know too. And she was the one to set the pace and teach you. Yes. Yes. So boy Mark Twain would have the field field day today Whitney. He would he would indeed an fat Mark Twain and MRs Astor, perhaps we're at the same place in the palm court in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, perhaps along a corridor. That connected the Waldorf Anthea story at two hotels, and that car there was called peacock alley. It was a version of what today we would think of as the red carpet. So in in my book, I needed to have have photographs and some drawings and illustrate there is peacock alley. And there were both there. Fancy ball, dress balls. There was there was not necessarily enough room in one's private mansion ballroom. So one booked a hotel such as the Waldorf Astoria. The guest list was exclusive crowd stood out on the sidewalk to see who came in. What did the ladies wear? What were their gills? And of course, the reporters, the news media social media of the day was the press, you know, this and Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst competing with their New York newspapers and their reporters were outside crippling away the next day, all New York and all America knew who had attended. And what they wore. And how elegant they were what a day that was. Yeah. You know that Waldorf the walled off. I was actually I last year when I was in London. My friend booked the rooms at the Waldorf, and oh my gosh. It was just like going back in time. So elegant the courtyards that everything just. Yes. Different level, totally different level the decor. So in elaborate, so incredibly inside today, maybe some of your audience have visited Newport, Rhode Island, others might that's where the so-called cottages, which are really the mansions off, MRs Astor's era. That's where those those palatial summer homes are and they've been preserved and they are open to the public. So researching my MRs Astor book, what would MRs Astor do? Of course, went to Newport toward those mansions again seen them, you know, years past, but this was very different. This was a work trip. I had to get it. Right. Talk about those mansions talk about MRs Astor in Newport, six weeks in the summertime, and you better be there. If you were in the social elite.