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Show 184 his sources in the Harding administration to create a Bryce national monument, the request was noted in the local press, but nothing else, including how Harding responded or whether or not he acted on it. With Utah's later parks - beginning in the 1960s with Canyonlands- politics was the news. The state's newspapers noted when park bills were introduced and when they were moved from committee to subcommittee or to another chamber of Congress. When a member of Congress criticized or praised a bill, it often merited a story. During the legislative deliberations of the later parks, The New York Times still covered only major controversies and legislative milestones. The San Francisco Examiner is harder to explain. The sparse and sporadic coverage of the political process, and the Utah parks in general, is an enigma. The newspaper reported the creation of Hryce Canyon and the enlargement of Arches and Capitol Reef monuments, but it was silent on the other Utah parks.557 When William Randolph Hearst owned the San Francisco Examiner in the early twentieth century, he used it to influence the debate surrounding the creation and later development of Yosemite National Park. That influence, however, did not extend to Utah's parks. The general trend in political coverage of Utah's parks, particularly in the state's papers, could be classified as an evolution from news with politics in the background to detailed blow-by-blow coverage of political mancuvcrings. Many of the major poli1ical moves leading 10 the establishment of Utah' s earliest national parks were not reported in Francisco Examiner, ··Utah Boasts New Park," June 22, 1924; Associated Press, '"Johnson Adds to Parks,'' San Francisco Examiner, January 20, 1969. H 7 Sa11 |
