Journalism: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Hargreaves

Author:Ian Hargreaves
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 0192806564
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

In Britain, a wholly fictional figure captures the spirit of the press baron. Evelyn Waugh’s comic masterpiece Scoop (1937) gave us Lord Copper, whose erratic judgement was surpassed only by the stridency with which it was delivered. Lord Copper’s craven underlings, trying like all good journalists to stay just on the right side of the truth, developed a standard reply to his peremptory formulations which echoes through newsrooms to this day: ‘Up to a point, Lord Copper.’

15. William Randolph Hearst was the ultimate press baron, mixing politics, celebrity high life, and newspapering in a potent blend. Orson Welles based his film Citizen Kane on Hearst’s life, but there is doubt about whether Hearst ever sent the famous message to one of his illustrators, telling him to stay in Cuba to cover a war that Hearst said he would ensure took place.

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