In her trial, which commenced on January 15, 1976 ( and in her dozens of previous interviews by FBI agents Charles Bates and Lawrence Lawler — any reference to which was not allowed by the presiding judge to be included in the trial ), Hearst's attorney F. Lee Bailey claimed that Hearst had been blindfolded, imprisoned in a narrow closet and physically and sexually abused.

Hearst referred the matter to the District Attorney which the organization claimed was over Hearst's dismissal.

In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht when one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, is rumored to have been shot dead by Hearst in a rage when he caught Davies embracing an unidentified male figure.

The lyrics reference Hearst's participation in a San Francisco bank robbery in 1974: " She walked out with empty arms, machine gun in her hand / She is good and she is bad, no one understands / She walked in in silence, never spoke a word / She's got a rich daddy, she's her daddy's girl ".

She was retained by William Randolph Hearst, possibly because she had praised Hearst's mistress Marion Davies, and her columns were read by 20 million people in 400 newspapers worldwide.

According to Hearst's mistress and protégé Marion Davies in her posthumously published memoirs The Times We Had, Parsons had encouraged readers to " give this girl a chance " while the majority of critics disparaged Davies ; it was on this basis that Hearst hired Parsons.

Her formidable power remained unchallenged until February 14, 1937, when Hedda Hopper, a struggling character actress since the days of silent movies, whom Parsons had been kind to and mentioned occasionally in her column, and who had returned the favor by giving Parsons information on others, was hired to be a gossip columnist by one of Hearst's rival newspapers.

The project proved to be her largest and most complex, as Hearst's vision for his estate grew ever grander over the decades of planning and construction.

Following her separation, and after Solax ceased production, Alice Guy-Blaché went to work for William Randolph Hearst's International Film Service.

In Patricia Hearst's account of her time with the SLA, she writes that Gelina would spend hours, and sometimes days, perfecting communiques

The lyrics reference Hearst's participation in a San Francisco bank robbery in 1974: " She walked out with empty arms, machine gun in her hand / She is good and she is bad, no one understands / She walked in in silence, never spoke a word / She's got a rich daddy, she's her daddy's girl ".

While at Rolling Stone, Weir and Howard Kohn revealed the " Inside Story " of Patty Hearst's odyssey while she was underground following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hearst's critics often assumed that all the strips in his papers were fronts for his own political and social views.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

It was later revealed that Soltysik and Emily Harris were the two who shot Marcus Foster according to Patty Hearst's sworn testimony.

" If ( she ) had reacted differently, that would have been suspect " and Hearst was " a rare phenomenon ( in a first world nation )... the first and as far as I know the only victim of a political kidnapping in the United States " were direct quotes from Hearst's autobiography attributed to the doctor.

Those newspapers that were Democratic in their outlook, including publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, sent reporters to Canton to dig up dirt on McKinley.

Some elements of Wynand's character were inspired by real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, including Hearst's mixed success in attempts to gain political influence.

Houston Chronicle announced it in a way that suggested the shutdown and Hearst's purchase of the Post's assets were simultaneous events.

It was under Randolph Hearst's chairmanship that the chief executive inherited from his father, Richard E. Berlin, finally retired, but the next three presidents were all also non-family trustees.

Charlie Chaplin, Cary Grant, the Marx Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Bob Hope, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Dolores Del Rio, and Winston Churchill were among Hearst's A-list guests.

" Certain elements in the film were taken from Mankiewicz's own experience: the sled Rosebud was based — according to some sources-on a very important bicycle that was stolen from him .... some of Kane's speeches are almost verbatim copies of Hearst's.

The World was at the time attacked for being " sensational ", and its later circulation battles with Hearst's Journal American gave rise to the term yellow journalism, which have led many to believe the World and the Journal were little more than scandal sheets.

Until 2009, three of Hearst's television stations ( KCWE, WMOR-TV, and WPBF ) and its two radio stations ( WBAL radio and WIYY ) were owned by Hearst Broadcasting, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation through which Hearst ultimately controlled Hearst-Argyle Television, as opposed to Hearst-Argyle itself ; Hearst-Argyle still operated these stations under a management services agreement.

Hearst's account in Every Secret Thing states that she and Yoshimura opposed the action and were therefore assigned to " switch cars " far from the scene.

Operations of the Sentinel were joined to Hearst's papers, the Wisconsin News and the Milwaukee Telegram ; a joint Sunday edition was published as the Milwaukee Sentinel & Telegram.

The News-Sentinel building at Plankinton and Michigan was torn down ; the presses were shipped to Hearst's San Francisco papers, and Sentinel operations moved to Journal Square, with Hearst retaining WISN radio and television ( WISN-TV remains part of Hearst's successor company Hearst-Argyle, while WISN Radio is owned by Clear Channel ).

During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

Hearst's private quarters and office, including a marble fireplace, were filmed in the high-ceilinged Gamble Room in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Lifetime was established as the result of a merger of Hearst's Daytime network, established in March 1982 as a four hour per day service with women's programming and Viacom's Cable Health Network, established in June 1982 as a 24-hour service that carried health and wellness programming.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.

`` Suppose you take Mr. Hearst's morning American at $10,000 a year '', Brisbane proposed.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

Beginning January 26, 1941, it ran on the front covers of Hearst's American Weekly newspaper magazine supplement, continuing until March 30 of that year.

In the mid-1890s, Thayer contributed several other comic poems for Hearst's New York Journal and then turned to overseeing his family's mills in Worcester full-time.

Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees ( its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders ) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns ( and selects the 18-member board of ) the Hearst Corporation.

* George Randolph Hearst III, grandson of Hearst's eldest son George Randolph Hearst Sr. and publisher of the Albany Times Union and director of Hearst Corporation

The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Hearst's death in August 1951 have died.

One of the documents unsealed was the deposition of Hearst's Asher, who says that as of September 2006, his company had recorded cumulative losses of $ 330 million on its investment in the Chronicle, which it acquired in mid-2000.

It debuted December 12, 1897 in the American Humorist, the Sunday supplement of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – July 23, 1911 and September 3, 1911 – July 26, 1914 ; respectively.

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

A year and a half later Outcault was drawing the Yellow Kid for Hearst's New York Journal in a full-page color Sunday supplement as McFadden's Row of Flats.

In 1896 Outcault was hired away at a much higher salary to William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American where he drew the Yellow Kid in a new full-page color strip which was significantly violent and even vulgar compared to his first panels for Truth magazine.

The two newspapers which ran the Yellow Kid, Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal American, quickly became known as the yellow kid papers.

Drawn by Jimmy Swinnerton, it began its run in 1893 in the San Francisco Examiner, one of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers.

In 1933, Warner was able to bring newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan films into the Warner Bros. fold.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.