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Michael Morgenthau

Sep 1, 2026

17:29
buildings that one can still see many from the gilded age that really housed the great newspapers and a number of them are really still there can you talk a little bit about why the physical newspaper buildings were in fact so grand and so ornate because one of the things that i learned from your tour it seems like there was a little messaging in there right not just a little messaging
17:53
you know, the newspaper editors and publishers of the day didn't do anything on a small scale, right? So think about the news business for a second.
18:01
It's ephemeral.
18:02
Here today, gone tomorrow, especially from a newspaper standpoint.
18:05
You print the news, your customers buy the paper, and then they toss it out.
18:09
That is the news business.
18:10
So you have to keep reproducing it every single day.

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51:55
So can you talk about these two gentlemen, who they were, how they battled it out, and just exactly what does that mean, yellow journalism?

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