Wednesday 7 October 2015

isnt it weird how everything comes together

so i think i wrote previously on my blog that I was looking at a load of other topics for this project, two of which were presidential assasinations, resulting in my interest in the musical Assassins, and worlds fairs throughout history. I noted previously how weird it was that these two topics combined because Leon Csolgosz assassinated president William McKinley at the pan american exposition in Buffalo which was a worlds fair in New York in 1901.

So on the wiki article about yellow journalism is this little nugget hiding at the bottom

Hearst was a leading Democrat who promoted William Jennings Bryan for president in 1896 and 1900. He later ran for mayor and governor and even sought the presidential nomination, but lost much of his personal prestige when outrage exploded in 1901 after columnist Ambrose Bierce and editor Arthur Brisbane published separate columns months apart that suggested the assassination of William McKinley. When McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, critics accused Hearst's Yellow Journalism of driving Leon Czolgosz to the deed. Hearst did not know of Bierce's column, and claimed to have pulled Brisbane's after it ran in a first edition, but the incident would haunt him for the rest of his life, and all but destroyed his presidential ambitions.[29]

Yellow journalism, my current topic, links right back to my other two previous topics!!!!
Ain't the world a remarkable place

I'm really excited about this 

everythings connected

woah mannnn

now lets enjoy this song in celebration 


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