ABSTRACT
The old journalism had been headed by editors and proprietors of Anglo-Saxon derivation. Joseph Pulitzer politics were Democratic, his journalism enterprising. Before his eyesight began palpably to fade he interested himself in political campaigns. It was symbolic of the contrast between the old journalism and the new that Dana’s Sun maliciously reported Pulitzer’s public speeches, which still carried traces of his Old world heritage, in dialect, hinting also, not too subtly, at his half-Jewish background. Others built the new journalism, notably William Randolph Hearst, whose murky career ranged from plans of the highest danger to the Republic to campaigns of patent distinction, engrossing both the doubtful and admirable aspects of democratic hopes. William Booth introduced the interview to British journalism. His most memorable campaign involved prostitution, which he dramatized by personally “purchasing” a young girl to show it could be done.
