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The Spanish-American War and Yellow Journalism
S33 E5 - 1m 3s
Joseph Pulitzer fought for readership with his nemesis, William Randolph Hearst, in the mid-1890s. Both crossed the line into “yellow journalism” during the Spanish-American War.
Joseph Pulitzer's and the Brooklyn Bridge
S33 E5 - 2m 31s
When the Brooklyn Bridge opened, Pulitzer challenged the one-penny pedestrian toll in his paper with a four-column woodcut of the bridge on the front page of the World, and declared: “Let the Bridge Be Free / A Penny Is a Workman’s Lunch.”
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