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William Randolph Hearst, 1863-1951: He Created What Was Once the Nation's Largest Newspaper Grou

William Randolph Hearst, 1863-1951: He Created What Was Once the Nation's Largest Newspaper Group

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Welcome to the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA.  Today, Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about American publisher William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst created what was once the nation's largest newspaper organization. He bought newspapers in many areas of the United States.  He spent millions of dollars to gain readers in sometimes shocking ways.  He forever changed the American newspaper business.

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William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco in eighteen sixty-three.  He was the only child of George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst.  His father became rich by developing mines.   His mother was a philanthropist who gave her time and money to help others.

William Randolph Hearst had everything he wanted as a child.  But, he was a rebel.  In eighteen eighty-five, he was expelled from Harvard, one of the best universities in America, for playing a joke on a professor.

George Hearst wanted his son to take control of developing the mines or the land he owned.  But William had other desires.  He became interested in newspapers while at Harvard.  He started working as a reporter for the New York World newspaper owned by Joseph Pulitzer.

George Hearst owned the San Francisco Examiner newspaper.  But he was more interested in politics than in newspaper publishing.  In eighteen eighty-seven, George Hearst became a United States senator.  He gave control of the newspaper to his son William who was twenty-three.

William Randolph Hearst wanted to create a newspaper that people would talk about.  He worked long hours and put high energy into his newspaper.  He employed some of the best reporters and writers he could find.  And, he paid them the highest wages.  Mr. Hearst improved the appearance of his newspaper and bought modern equipment.  He also improved relations with advertisers.  Advertisers pay to have their products shown in newspapers to increase sales.  Newspapers profit from the money paid by advertisers.

News stories in the San Francisco Examiner were written with force, energy and excitement.  Some stories were written to shock readers and affect them emotionally.  However, the stories were simple and easy to read.

Mr. Hearst believed in doing whatever it took to get readers.  His newspaper policy was:  make the news complete; print all the news; shorten it if necessary, but get it in.  That became the policy in newsrooms across America.

By eighteen ninety-one, the San Francisco Examiner had three times more readers and advertisers than when Mr. Hearst took control of the newspaper.  In less than five years, William Randolph Hearst made the new San Francisco Examiner a huge success.

Mr. Hearst repeated his success in New York City. He borrowed five million dollars from his mother to purchase a second newspaper, the New York Journal.  In his first two months, he increased the number of copies sold from thirty thousand to one hundred thousand.

Joseph Pulitzer was a very successful publisher in New York.  Mr. Hearst shared Mr. Pulitzer's excitement and energy about the newspaper business.

During the eighteen nineties, Mr. Hearst and Mr. Pulitzer began a fierce newspaper war.  Mr. Hearst hired many reporters from Mr. Pulitzer's New York World newspaper.  He paid them more than two times as much as they had been earning.  He also reduced the price of his newspaper below Mr. Pulitzer's.

Mr. Hearst won readers by making the news more exciting and entertaining.  He created a kind of newspaper reporting known today as "yellow journalism."  News events were made to seem greater than they really were.  His methods went beyond what would be accepted today in major newspapers.  Critics said his newspapers were only for entertainment.  Yet many other newspapers tried to copy his methods.

Mr. Hearst attacked big businesses and dishonest politicians in his newspapers.  There were also reports about sex, murder and other crimes.  His newspapers became a voice for working people and the poor.  His influence grew across the nation through his newspapers and the magazines he bought or began.

Many experts say Mr. Hearst's reporting methods and his battle with Mr. Pulitzer for readers led to the Spanish-American War.  In eighteen ninety-eight, the United States fought Spain to help the people of Cuba gain independence from Spain.

Mr. Hearst's newspapers had accused Spain of sinking the American battleship Maine and killing two hundred fifty sailors.  This increased public support for the war.  However, it still is not known how the ship sank.

The war greatly increased readers for the Hearst publications.  Mr. Hearst's battle with competitors widened after the war.  Some newspapers blamed him when President William McKinley was murdered in nineteen-oh-one.  The assassination happened after one of the Hearst newspapers seemed to suggest killing Mr. McKinley.

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In the early nineteen hundreds, William Randolph Hearst became deeply involved in politics.  He represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from nineteen-oh-three to nineteen-oh-seven.  In nineteen-oh-four, he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president.  He also failed in his campaigns to become governor of New York or mayor of New York City.

Mr. Hearst had hoped to change the way things were being done in New York City.  He hoped to defeat dishonest New York City politicians who controlled the city at the time.

Mr. Hearst also campaigned against big business.  He supported labor unions and government ownership of public utilities, railroads, and other big companies.  And, he sought political reform and the return of economic competition in the country.

Mr. Hearst's opponents accused him of being disloyal to his country because of his support for Germany during the first years of World War One.  He was opposed to American involvement in the war.

Mr. Hearst was sharply criticized for his political ideas.  Many people refused to deal with him.  Some hated him.   His newspapers were banned in many communities.

Mr. Hearst strongly supported Democrat Franklin Roosevelt for president in nineteen thirty-two.  Then he became increasingly conservative and turned against President Roosevelt.  He opposed American involvement in World War Two.  He also led a fierce campaign against communism during the nineteen thirties.

Through the years, Mr. Hearst continued to buy newspapers and magazines across the country and around the world.  He also controlled a number of radio and television stations and a movie company.

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William Randolph Hearst and his wife Millicent were married in nineteen-oh-three.  They had five sons.  She remained married to him until her death.  However, Mr. Hearst spent almost thirty years of his life with Hollywood actress Marion Davies in San Simeon, California.  They met in nineteen seventeen and later lived together at San Simeon.  He started a movie company to produce movies for her.  Their relationship shocked the nation.

Mr. Hearst spent thirty years and thirty million dollars to build a huge home at San Simeon.  It has one hundred sixty-five rooms.  Mr. Hearst and Marion Davies entertained many famous people there.  He continually bought costly art objects to fill it.

By nineteen thirty-seven, Mr. Hearst's heavy spending threatened to ruin his publishing organization.  He was forced to sell much of his property and many art objects.  The economic recovery after World War Two saved what was left of his media organization.

When William Randolph Hearst died in nineteen fifty-one, he still owned what was then the largest newspaper company in America.  Today, the Hearst Corporation includes more than one hundred thirty separate businesses.  They include newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations and business media companies.  The communications business William Randolph Hearst began continues to influence and inform people around the world.

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 ANNOUNCER:

This Special English program was written by Cynthia Kirk. It was produced by Paul Thompson.   Your narrators were Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt.  I'm Faith Lapidus.  Listen again next week for anotherPEOPLE IN AMERICA program on the Voice of America.

Food for thought, 1/10 Children of Israel, Palestine

This is an awesome documentary, I watched for the first time and it shows the both sides of Jewish and Palestine, you have the opportunity to improve your English and understanding a bit about how difficult is to live in a region of conflict.. Take your own conclusion and comment. Remember I will not accept insults and Zionists or Nazi comments. The purpose of this documentary has been used and continue used for Brazilian teachers, you can explore the interdisciplinary, in particular about Geography and History. See the next Episode.  

I.LISTEN TO BRYAM ADAM'S SONG AND COMPLETE IT .

I.LISTEN TO BRYAM ADAM'S SONG  AND  COMPLETE  IT .

A song can teach much, telling for friend about the useful website English exercises, it's an ESL designed for both Students and Teachers.

Author of this Exercise: Teacher Ruth

Source: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2831

 

               DO I HAVE TO SAY THE WORDS

 

                              

 

 

Rescue  from the mire

Whisper words of 

Rescue me -  rescue me

With your  open wide

Want you here by my side

Come to me - darling rescue me

When this world's  in

There's no need to pretend

Set me  - darling rescue me

I don't wanna let you 

So I'm standing in your way

I never needed anyone like I'm needing you today

Do I   to say the words?

Do I have to tell the truth?

Do I have to shout it out? 

Do I have to say a ? 

Must I prove to you - how good we are ? 

Do I have to say the words? 

Rescue me from despair 

Tell me you will be there 

 me please - darlin' rescue me 

Every  that we share 

Every cross that we bear 

Can't you see - darling rescue me 

I don't wanna let you go                                                                          

So I'm standing in your way 

I never needed anyone like I'm needing you  

Do I have to say the words? 

Do I have to tell the ? 

Do I have to shout it out? 

Do I have to say a prayer? 

Must I  to you - how good we are together? 

Do I have to say the words?

Beautiful landscapes

                                Panoramic view of Carnaúba dos Dantas

   Petroglyph (Fundões)

Bivar's Castle

                                Hunting Scene, Messias' grotto, Northeast Tradition, Seridó Sub Tradition, Indigenous Rock art paintings. 

                                Deer...rock art paintings Cardão.

                                Lagedo's Ranch, on top Talhado do Gavião' shelter 

                                Rock art Paintings yellow and red colours. 

                                Religious' Landmark Monte do Galo it's a place of pilgrimage. Pilgrims climb up whole year to pay promise to Our Lady of Victory. 

                                Canoe Messias' grotto beautiful paintings belongs to Northeast Tradition located in Cardao, rural zone of Carnaúba town.

                                Fighting scene, Xique-Xique I

                                Dance and hunting scene, Xique-Xique I

                                                Beautiful Observation desk on top of Monte do Galo

Get to know my region, I live in a beautiful town and touristic ones, surrounded by mountains, history and prehistory, legends, and Storytellers recount stories of the past, true or not, it takes part of Carnaúba dos Dantas, a small town located in the countryside of Rio Grande do Norte State. 

Keep a listening notebooks

A relevant tip to improve your English and listening experiences. After you listen to a news broadcast or watch a movie, write for two minutes in your listening notebook. Write a summary or a reaction or some new vocabulary or expressions. Write in your notebook once or twice a week, or as much as possible.

Try this now:

Think about some ideas for your listening notebook. Which might be helpful for you to write? Write a plus (+) sign.

• A summary
• Questions
• Other notes
• New Expressions
• Your impressions

Your motivation, dedication and will power will lead a fluency as soon as possible, don't forget about that and keep practising hard in order to get your achievements. See you the next tip. 

Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: His Simple Paintings Hold Meaning for Americans

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I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about artist Edward Hopper.  He painted normal objects and people in interesting and mysterious ways.

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In June of two thousand-six, visitors entered the redesigned Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. for the first time. When these people walked into the building, they saw two simple, colorful paintings. These paintings showed normal scenes from American life.  But they looked mysterious and beautiful. American artist Edward Hopper painted both of these famous pictures.

Edward Hopper was born in eighteen eighty-two in Nyack, a small town in New York state. From a young age, Edward knew he wanted to be a painter. His parents were not wealthy people. They thought Edward should learn to paint and make prints to advertise for businesses. This kind of painting is called commercial art. Edward listened to his mother and father. In nineteen hundred, he moved to New York City to study commercial art.  However, he also studied more serious and artistic kinds of painting.

One of Hopper's teachers was Robert Henri, a famous American painter in the early twentieth century. Henri was a leader of a group of artists who called themselves the Ashcan School painters. The Ashcan artists liked to paint normal people and objects in realistic ways.  Henri once expressed his ideas about painting this way:  "Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you."

Edward Hopper agreed with many of these ideas about art. He told people that Henri was his most important teacher.

Hopper studied with Henri in New York City for six years. During those years, Hopper dreamed of going to Europe. Many painters there were making pictures in ways no one had ever seen before. Many of them had begun to paint pictures they called "abstract."  The artists liked to say these works were about ideas rather than things that existed in the real world. Their paintings did not try to show people and objects that looked like the ones in real life. Most American artists spent time in Europe. Then they returned to the United States to paint in this new way.

With help from his parents, Hopper finally traveled to Europe in nineteen-oh-six. He lived in Paris, France for several months. He returned again in nineteen-oh-nine and nineteen-ten.

Unlike many other people, however, Hopper was not strongly influenced by the new, abstract styles he found there. "Paris had no great or immediate impact on me," he once said. At the end of these travels, he decided that he liked the realistic methods he had learned from Robert Henri.

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When Edward Hopper returned from Paris for the last time, he moved into a small apartment in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. He took a job making prints and paintings for businesses. However, the paintings he made outside of his job were not helping him earn money or recognition. He had a show of his work at a gallery in New York. However, most people were not interested in his simple, realistic style. Very few people bought his paintings.

Things began to improve in nineteen twenty-three. He began a love relationship with an artist named Jo Nivison. Soon they married. His wife sometimes said that Edward tried to control her thoughts and actions too much. However, most people who knew them said they loved each other very much. They stayed married for the rest of their lives. Also, Jo was the model for all of the women in Hopper's paintings.

Success in art soon followed this success in love. In nineteen twenty-four, Hopper had the second show of his paintings. This time, he sold many pictures. Finally, at age forty-three, he had enough money to quit his job painting for businesses. He could now paint what he loved. Edward and Jo bought a car and began to travel around the country to find interesting subjects to paint.

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Most people say that Hopper's nineteen twenty-five painting "The House by the Railroad" was his first mature painting. This means that it was the first painting that brought together all of his important techniques and ideas.

"The House by the Railroad" shows a large, white house. The painting does not show the bottom of the house. It is blocked by railroad tracks. Cutting scenes off in surprising ways was an important part of Hopper's style. He became famous for paintings that are mysterious, that look incomplete or that leave viewers with questions.

Shadows make many parts of the home in "The House by the Railroad" look dark. Some of the windows look like they are open, which makes the viewer wonder what is inside the house. However, only dark, empty space can be seen through the windows. Strange shadows, dark spaces, and areas with light were important parts of many Hopper paintings.

There are no people in the painting, and no evidence of other houses nearby. Hopper was famous for showing loneliness in his art. People often said that, even when there were many people in his paintings, each person seems to be alone in his or her own world.

During the great economic depression of the nineteen thirties, many people saw Hopper's lonely, mysterious paintings of everyday subjects.  They liked the pictures because they seemed to show life honestly, without trying to make it happier or prettier than it really was. As a result, Hopper continued to sell many paintings during those years, even though most Americans were very poor.

In nineteen forty-two, Hopper painted his most famous work, "Nighthawks."   The painting shows four people in an eating-place called a diner late at night.  They look sad, tired, and lonely. Two of them look like they are in a love relationship.  But they do not appear to be talking to each other. The dark night that surrounds them is mysterious and tense. There is no door in the painting, which makes the subjects seem like they might be trapped.

Hopper painted "Nighthawks" soon after the Japanese bomb attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Many people thought the painting showed the fear and unhappiness that most Americans were feeling after the attack. The painting became very famous. Today, most Americans still recognize it. The painting now hangs in a famous museum in Chicago, Illinois.

"Nighthawks" was not Edward Hopper's only great success. In nineteen fifty, he finished a painting called "Cape Cod Morning." It shows a brightly colored house in the country. In the middle of the painting, a woman leans on a table and looks out a window. She looks very sad. However, nothing in the painting gives any idea about why she would be sad. Today this painting hangs in a special place in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington.  It is one the paintings we noted at the beginning of this program.

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Edward Hopper began to struggle with his art during the nineteen fifties and sixties.  He had trouble finding interesting subjects.  When he did find good things to paint, he struggled to paint them well.

At the same time, the artistic community became less interested in realistic paintings. In the nineteen fifties, the Abstract Expressionist style became very popular. These artists refused to have subjects to paint. They wanted to "paint about painting" and "paint about ideas." They thought Hopper's style was no longer modern or important. As a result, the paintings he did complete met less success than during the earlier years.

Edward Hopper died in nineteen sixty-seven. His wife Jo died less than a year later.

Many years after his death, Hopper's work is still popular in this country and outside America. In two thousand four, the famous Tate Art Gallery in London had a show of his paintings. This show brought the second-largest number of visitors of any show in the history of the museum. Today, people say Edward Hopper was one of the best American artists of the twentieth century.

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This program was written by Sarah Randle and produced by Mario Ritter.  I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Doug Johnson. You can read, listen to and download this program at our Web site, voaspecialenglish.com. Join us again next week for PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English.