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E.W. SIDED WITH THE WORKING CLASS.(News)(Reprint)(Company overview)
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The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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December 31, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Barry M. Horstman, Post contributor
A collection of essays by E.W. Scripps is titled "Damned Old Crank"-- a description that much of his family, many of his employees and all of the targets of his newspapers' unrelenting crusades would no doubt find most fitting.
In an extraordinarily colorful life riddled with contradictions, Scripps, a school drop-out with no writing skills, became one of America's first news media giants, presiding over more newspapers -- an empire that included The Cincinnati Post -- than William Randolph Hearst.
Although the newspaper chain he founded made Scripps a wealthy man, he instinctively aligned the "Penny Post" and his ...
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