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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Subject: Re: Nightline and Presidential Cantidates
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- References: <1992Nov11.194742.3823@microsoft.com> <BxnpKy.CyL@access.digex.com> <1992Nov15.220430.10060@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:32:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.220430.10060@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> lms@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Max Stern 310-524-6152) writes:
- >In article <BxnpKy.CyL@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov11.194742.3823@microsoft.com> philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper) writes:
- >>> Anyway, it is well known that
- >>>most newspapers are owned by wealthy republican men (for example, William
- >>>Randolph Hearst).
- >>
- >>Not only has William Randolph Hearst been dead for more than 40 years, but
- >>he was a Democrat. His papers supported William Jennings Bryan in both
- >>1896 and 1900, and Hearst himself was a potential Democratic nominee for
- >>President in 1904.
- >>
- >
- >I guess Phillip (the original poster) had in mind WRH III, father of
- >Patty (Tanya).
-
- Not much better since Patty's father was Randolph A. Hearst. Her uncle was
- named William Randolph Hearst, Jr., though.
-
- >I don't know the politics of WRH III, however.
-
- I don't even know if such a person exists, but I would guess that he would be
- a first cousin of Patty's.
-
- A better example of a wealthy, Republican newspaper publisher of recent years
- (well, his lifespan overlapped mine) would have been Robert McCormick of
- _Chicago Tribune_ fame.
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
-