…In 1978, he bought the St. Louis Dispatch, which had gone bankrupt and was being auctioned, and merged it with the St. Louis Post, run by JA Dillon, to edit and manage the evening paper, The Post-Dispatch. As a supporter of the people, he repeatedly campaigned against corruption and the wrongdoings of large corporations, and tried new journalistic methods, making it the city's leading newspaper. In 1983, he bought the New York newspaper The World from J. Gould for $346,000, and created a newspaper with a huge circulation and influence through attacks on the tyranny of large corporations such as Morgan, and a $100,000 fund campaign to build a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, which marked the beginning of a major change in the newspaper structure throughout the United States. Having suffered many hardships as an immigrant, he naively believed in the ideals of democracy and hoped for the realization of social justice. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "The World" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…78年,破産して競売に付されていた《セント・ルイス・ディスパッチ》紙を買い,J.A.ディロン経営の《セント・ルイス・ポスト》紙と合併させ夕刊紙《ポスト・ディスパッチThe Post‐Dispatch》の編集・経営にあたり,民衆の味方として汚職,大企業の不正に対するキャンペーンを繰り返し,新しいジャーナリズム手法を試みながら,同市の指導的新聞とした。83年にはニューヨークの新聞《ワールドThe World》紙を34万6000ドルでJ.グールドから買い,モルガンなど巨大企業の専横に対する攻撃,〈自由の女神〉の台座づくりの10万ドル基金キャンペーンなどで,巨大な部数と影響力をもつ新聞をつくりあげ,全米の新聞構造を大きく変える端緒をつくった。移民として多くの辛酸をなめた彼は素朴にデモクラシーの理念を信じ,社会正義の実現を願っていた。… ※「《The World》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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