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1 7 = oo . . ' + . . , ‘ & , — -- ' ‘ . . . Va r or mass media daily talks of the "ordeal" of the out, workers, San einen cmemnall . , . , ' 1 . ‘ to quote her captors, Patricia Hearst was taken prisoner. family. But the ’ tnetdent has raised other fssues, which the media has not given 2 consideration. The single-most important one is.that there exists’a ruting class in the U.S., and the Hearsts, by their own admission sere:members of this class. The facts of history serve to bear this 2) i ‘World attention has been focussed on the Hearst family since, In the tate 1800's the Hearst publications were responsibte for launching the American people into the Carribean-and the Phifipines- Ths Spanish-American war. '! This war resulted in the replacement of - Spanish control by United States corporate domination in the struge gting countries of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, Son em ps gree pm, ar The or Come ee | | The Hearst family has historically been In control of the news media since the turn of the century, That controf has been used to mofd public opinion and to create concepts of American superiority and patriotism to justify corporate forelgn expansion and Inter- vention throughout Latin America and to justify the exploitation of one Today that aggression, which was created and advocated by the "velfow journalism" of the Hearst family is best illustrated by the classical colonial status of Puerto Rico, so declared a colony of 7 4 the United States, recently, by the United Nations. In 1911, Hearst vigorously mobitized his mass media machinery to Inctte armed Intervention in support of the Diaz dictatorship, during the Mexican Revolution, The Hearst publications were used to create and p romote public support and financial assistance for Adolf Hitler and his fascist tiique clique of aenocida! murderers, Gefore World War Il, after several persona! visits by Hearst, Hitler paid the Hearst publica- tions $400,000 to incite U.S. public support for Nazism. Here in ¢he United States, Hearst initiated the formation of several fascist groups throughout Los Angeles, such as the Lighthorse Cavalry, the Callfornia Esquadrilie, the Hollywood Hussars, and others, During the 1940's editorials and reports from the Hearst publtic=- ations took the leading role in inciting U.S. white racism and vio- lence against the Japanese people of this country. That tneitement culminated with the removal of Japanese men, wome; and children from thelr homes end their placement in war-time concentration camos with- . - in the U.S.4 It was also In the '40's that the Hearst publications, -especlally the Herald-Examiner, condoned the attacks by U.S. navymen -aoainst Mexican people of Los Anceles. Ouring these "Zoot-suit Riots" ; feos of white navy and clvitlian men roamed the streets of Los Anoe- a. ‘20= a Lo: ‘ See me en LR emi eat erie am nae ae Roman ogee Ment ma oe ernment genes ecmecrms = one mORENER, Fa—teTeens ASR AUT —ee euree-eet = veet-a- FE Ralston ge gyigghiges ae gh ye Se es oe he at nwa oy te ne ea - oo .. ee ¢ ee ee ee SN &tae kee any mses : Si ners rn nena mae anaes ee ernie en 9 pont hn ~_