William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863, in San Francisco, California. He is the only child in his family. Hearst’s father was a self-made multimillionaire in the mining industry. One day, Hearst’s father asked him what he wanted to do. The young boy answered him and said he wanted to take over the San Francisco Examiner. His father was puzzled because Hearst could have anything in the family empire and he decided to …showed first 75 words of 350 total…

…showed last 75 words of 350 total…had many articles on how he thought Mexicans were lazy. He wanted to create an image that they were violent and used marijuana regularly. In his book, the author, David Nasaw states that “Newspapers were his personal playthings, to be milked for money and to pound home to readers his brand of politics”. Hearst uses his newspaper empire to get anything he wanted. (Nasaw 125). This shows that he was a kid with lots of money.