the president himself and people using his own newspapers against him, but it served Welles' purpose better to have Kane defeated by his own greed. After all of these truths about business came forth, many other editors and owners of newspapers took advantage of them. Hearst is credited as being the father of American tabloids by setting the standards for the way that its business is conducted (Robinson 37). As everyone knows being a tabloid reporter is a dirty business, but try being a tabloid owner. Now that can be a real challenge. With each company trying to come up with an outrageous story to top the other's; things can become dangerous in the heat of battle. As illustrated with Hearst, owners will pay anything for a story because the money is always there. The bigger the story the more revenue from sales each paper is likely to receive. In the newspaper business there are no rules for stabbing a friend in the back. This goes for regular news papers too. Each company will go beyond normal boundaries to get the scoop on a rival paper. A lot of money is exchanged for information that can lead to big stories or is given to make up stories. This is all in a days work for an editor of a paper. These things are overlooked by the public because we take for granted what read in the papers is true or has some truth to it, regardless if it is a tabloid or city newspaper. As a reporter for the San Diego Star reports, " If the subject is unwilling to give up the information I need for my report, I may try to slip them a fifty" ( Franco 27). This process of paying off sources for information is still used today. Many reporters would be nowhere without the aid of money. As the saying goes "Money talks, Bull*censored* walks." This shows that anything can be bought a price, and everyone has a price. . . it just depends on what that price is.Even good reporters come at a price. With the money that each company generates they can buy better and b...
