AHC - American Titans (2015) Part 5 Hearst vs. Pulitzer
American Heroes Channel profiles the tycoons who made America - and the backs on which they stood to make their millions - in the series “AMERICAN TITANS” Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Edison; a roll call of the founding fathers of the Fortune 500. This dramatic series tells stories behind the men who made America. They are ruthless, brilliant and will do anything to win. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Edison, Tesla, Hearst, and Pulitzer their legacies live down through the ages, emblazoned on museums, universities, banks, charities, and the richest of American real estate. Ferocious drive, innovation and often sheer recklessness took these visionaries to the top of the rich-and-powerful list and ultimately made America the mightiest nation on earth. Despite their wealth and power, these titans of industry and captains of commerce were not always philanthropic, often driven by greed, ambition, jealousy and revenge. You can't build a fortune without making a few enemies. From Edison and Tesla's high-voltage war of the currents to Rockefeller and Scott's row over the growth of oil, AMERICAN TITANS relies on cinematic recreations and expert commentary to reveal what it took for the founding fathers of the Fortune 500 to steer the Industrial Revolution into the Gilded Age. During this era of incredible industrial potential, there were many on the road to absolute power - these are the stories of those who out-fought, out-spent, and out-smarted their rivals to reserve their chapter in the history books and make America what it is today.
Part 5 Hearst vs. Pulitzer
Hearst and Pulitzer Break All Ethical Rules To Sell Newspapers. Journalists aren't supposed to insert themselves into the news but that didn't stop Hearst and Pulitzer from doing so. In the summer of 1897, the two largest newspaper publishers in the United States go head to head in a war of yellow journalism, exploiting a gruesome murder and the growing unrest in Cuba to outdo each other. William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer's circulation battle is like no other in the history of publishing. There is nothing they won't do. By the end, each man will be scarred for life, America will go to war, and the road will be paved for mass-circulation newspapers that change the publishing world forever.
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