an income of fifteen million dollars a year at the height of his power, he had almost no savings and sometimes had to borrow money (Swanberg 88). Right after taking over The Inquirer, as told now by Bernstein, Kane ordered the editor to play up less "important" stories for the paper, the kinds of things that the nation wanted to see and read about, not just boring, plain "news." He became very involved in the editorial content of his paper, constantly trying to make it better that the rest, staying up late, thinking of headlines and ideas for scoops. Kane went to the office of The Chronicle, his main competition, to admire the best newspaper staff in the world and its gigantic circulation, and soon after he bribed those same men with large sums of cash to move from The Chronicle to his newspaper, achieving in six years what it took The Chronicle twenty years to accomplish. He also married the president's niece, Emily (Citizen Kane). These were very Hearst-like maneuvers in many ways. First, as stated before, Hearst loved to embellish and exaggerate the news to get circulation. Second, Hearst was constantly stealing talented newspapermen from other newspapers, a practice which annoyed such men as Joseph Pulitzer to no end. (Pulitzer's World was Hearst's favorite publication) (Swanberg 95). Hearst paid any salary he had to without a care, for he had millions his disposal, since his father was still funding the enterprise. Hearst also married a young Millicent Willson, a parallel to Kane's Emily (Swanberg 246). Bernstein's narration ended with a telegram from Kane announcing his purchase of the largest diamond in the world. Bernstein commented to Leland, Kane's best friend, that Kane was not collecting diamonds, but collecting someone else who was collecting diamonds (Citizen Kane). This is an early hint at Kane's belief that one could buy love like anything else, which is one of Welles' main criticisms of Hearst, and is shown as Kane's fa...
