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Show 44 Utah's Dinosaur National Monument. 115 This early focus on environmental issues helped The New York Times cam its reputation as the newspaper of record on environmental issues. In 1919, the newspaper reported its daily and Sunday average circulation exceeded 369,000. 116 By 1971, daily circulation climbed to 814,290, and Sunday circulation was 1,412,017. 117 ln the early 1920s, San Francisco was a major cultural center in the West. The San Francisco Examiner, started in the 1860s, was the flagship newspaper of William Randolph Hearst's expanding empire. Hearst biographer John K. Winkler wrote that by the early twentieth century, the Examiner was the "foremost feature newspaper in the west ... it was watched and quoted all over the country." 118 From early on, Hearst inserted himself and his newspaper into environmental debates. In 1890, The San Francisco Examiner clashed with John Muir over which government entity should control Yosemite. Muir used his prominence to publish counterattacks in Eastern newspapers and magazines. In 1905, during the debate about whether California should tum control of the park back to the federal government, Hearst's Examiner printed petitions that the newspaper claimed garnered 62,890 signatures protesting the recession. 119 ln 1913, the Examiner again published petitions, this time to convince Congress to allow the construction of a dam in the Hetch Hetchy 115 Jbid.,456. 1" New York Times,DisplayAd 165-No Tille, March 16, 1919, 56. 111 New York Times, "The New York Times Co.,"October28, 1971, 70 111 John K. Winkler, William Randolph Hearst: A NewAppruisa/(New York: Hastings House, 1955), 8. 11~ Neuzil and Kovarik, Mass Media and En~ironmentaf Conflict, 79. |
