How did Pulitzer, Hearst, et al. sell papers? It wasn’t with the high-brow stuff. They sent reporters to hospitals to write about the gruesome murders and horrible (or embarrassing, alcohol-fueled) injuries a city’s residents had suffered that day. We break down a paper full of those stories -- the August 23rd, 1897 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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- FrequencyUpdated Weekly
- PublishedSeptember 9, 2022 at 4:07 PM UTC
- Length1h 23m
- RatingExplicit