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We've Never Wanted Real News
Published 3 years, 5 months ago
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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. And it all went on one page. We break down one of those pages, from the August 23rd, 1897 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It’s got everything from Italian hookers to race wars to sad old drunk ladies.