Citizen Kane

aper." (Citizen Kane) The circumstances under which
             Hearst entered the newspaper world were very similar. Hearst's father, a
             nearly illiterate mining tycoon, owned a newspaper in San Francisco, The
             Examiner, which he used as nothing more than a political organ to further
             his candidacy for a seat in Congress (Swanberg 26). Against his father's
             wishes for him to enter the world of mining, young Hearst took control of
             the paper to try to reverse his father's enormous losses on it (Swanberg
             Both Hearst and Kane immediately began to revolutionize everything
             about their respective papers. Kane literally moved in to the office so
             that he might be constantly around his paper, constantly able to redo it at
             any hour, night or day. He makes it quite clear that, from now on, The
             Examiner was going to do more than just report what the current editor
             considered "newsworthy." It was going to report all news, large or small,
             especially if it could be made into a sensation and sell newspapers. And
             if there was no current sensation, Kane would create the news. Hearst did
             the same thing, revolutionizing his paper to take
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