{"id":24705,"date":"2025-05-10T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musks-use-of-x-mimics-hearsts-and-fords-manipulation-of-media\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:12:31","slug":"elon-musks-use-of-x-mimics-hearsts-and-fords-manipulation-of-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/elon-musks-use-of-x-mimics-hearsts-and-fords-manipulation-of-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Use of X Mimics Hearst\u2019s and Ford\u2019s Manipulation of Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants validate many people\u2019s worst impulses while also encouraging enemies of democracy around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This sounds like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/01\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-doge-cuts-trump.html\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a> and his social media site X in 2025, but it was also Henry Ford and his paper, The Dearborn Independent, in the 1920s. Ford, the inventor of the Model T, bought a suburban weekly and remade it to push his antisemitic views. The Dearborn Independent published a long-running series called \u201cThe International Jew,\u201d which blamed Jews for the world\u2019s ills, and publicized \u201cThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion,\u201d a hoax document. The Nazis gave Ford a medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ford was perhaps the most blatant example in a long tradition of moguls who bought media platforms and then used them to promote odious views. These tycoons often used the latest in technology to reach the widest audience, whether it was high-speed newspaper presses or, in Ford\u2019s case, his network of car dealerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Drive off in your new Model T and there would be The Dearborn Independent <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/henryford-antisemitism\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on the seat<\/a>. Newspapers at the time were local businesses. With the dealerships, The Dearborn Independent became one of the highest-circulated papers in the country, printing more than 750,000 copies of each issue at its peak.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">After Henry Ford bought The Dearborn Independent, it published a long-running series called \u201cThe International Jew,\u201d which repeated antisemitic tropes and blamed Jews for the world\u2019s ills.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Library of Congress<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The biggest difference between Ford and other media titans like<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/13\/magazine\/rupert-murdoch-succession-family-trust-fight.html\" title=\"\">Rupert Murdoch<\/a> was that the latter generally promoted their views by hiring like-minded editors and anchors. The Dearborn Independent announced on its cover that it was the \u201cFord International Weekly,\u201d and it included a full-page editorial signed by Ford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s actions signal a return to Ford\u2019s personal approach. The Tesla and SpaceX billionaire has enthusiastically posted, reposted and endorsed incorrect or inflammatory claims on X that Social Security is fraudulent, that the Democrats are importing immigrants to win elections and that the federal judges who are ruling against the Trump administration should be impeached.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are plenty of precedents for what Mr. Musk is doing with X. But he has taken the process to a level unimaginable even a short time ago. The site says he has 220 million followers, an assertion impossible to verify. Even if it is only a fraction of that number, X has been optimized to blast its owner\u2019s posts as widely as possible. People see them and hear about them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/27\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html\" title=\"\">$44 billion purchase<\/a> of what was then Twitter in 2022 at first seemed to be a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/08\/technology\/elon-musk-twitter.html\" title=\"\">mistake<\/a>, even to him. Then it was perceived as a billionaire\u2019s toy. In last year\u2019s election, it became a weapon. He used his political views to form an alliance with Donald J. Trump, which he then leveraged to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html\" title=\"\">put himself into the government<\/a> expressly to shut down as much of it as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The repercussions are still unfolding. But for Mr. Musk, it was a clear victory. In the name of government efficiency, agencies fired regulators who were in a position to oversee his empire. Mr. Musk now has a much freer hand with his cars and rockets. (An X spokesman did not provide a comment.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is like nothing we\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d said Rick Perlstein, author of a four-volume chronicle of modern American conservatism. Noting Mr. Musk\u2019s frequent use of memes and images, the historian added: \u201cIt\u2019s the politics of the nervous system, not the higher functions of the brain. There\u2019s no argument, just fear mongering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Moguls in the United States and Britain have owned media with the purpose of exerting influence since the creation of the modern newspaper in the late 19th century. During World War I, Viscount Northcliffe of Britain controlled roughly 40 percent of the morning circulation and 45 percent of the evening circulation there. His properties included The Daily Mail, read by the working class, and The Times, read by the elites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The viscount, whose name was Alfred Harmsworth, played a crucial role in deposing Prime Minister Herbert Asquith in December 1916. Winston Churchill wrote that the press baron \u201caspired to exercise a commanding influence on events.\u201d Viscount Northcliffe\u2019s influence on the war was so great that the Germans sent warships to assassinate him in 1917, shelling his seaside home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the United States, the control of the media was often more of a local phenomenon. In West Texas in the early 1960s, the ultraconservative Whittenburg family owned The Amarillo Daily News, the NBC television station and the dominant radio station. There were few competing voices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you feed people a far-right media diet, you\u2019ll end up with a population almost exclusively on the far right,\u201d said Jeff Roche, a historian who wrote \u201cThe Conservative Frontier,\u201d a forthcoming study of the politics of the region. \u201cAmarillo became the most right-wing city in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMedia ownership and political influence have gone hand in hand since the earliest days of the newspaper industry,\u201d said Simon Potter, a professor of modern history at the University of Bristol who studies mass media. \u201cFor just as long, people have worried about this intimate relationship between the media and politics \u2014 does it really serve the public interest?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Behind that question is another: Does their megaphone really give them power, or is it shouting into a void? An American forerunner of Mr. Musk \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/person\/william-randolph-hearst\" title=\"\">William Randolph Hearst<\/a> \u2014 provides an answer. Hearst, the owner of the upstart New York Journal, sent correspondents to Cuba in 1897 to cover a war with Spain. His interests were less humanitarian than promotional. He was in a circulation war.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">The New York Journal from March 25, 1898. William Randolph Hearst had sent correspondents to Cuba cover a war with Spain.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Library of Congress<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One version of how that story played out showed Hearst as an all-powerful media magnate:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Journal correspondents discovered there was no war. \u201cEverything is quiet,\u201d Frederic Remington, the paper\u2019s illustrator, cabled Hearst. \u201cThere will be no war.\u201d They wanted to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hearst replied: \u201cPlease remain. You furnish the pictures and I\u2019ll furnish the war.\u201d He then agitated in his papers for the war that President William McKinley in short order began. It liberated Cuba and acquired for the United States prized parts of the Spanish empire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The story was first published in a book by a colleague of Hearst\u2019s named James Creelman and later immortalized in Orson Welles\u2019s \u201cCitizen Kane.\u201d It has been thoroughly debunked over the years. There was no evidence that Hearst ever said he would supply a war. The correspondents found plenty to illustrate. But the anecdote persisted because it showed a mogul so powerful that he could make wars out of nothing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Hearst tried to move on from his wartime endeavors to advance his own political career, he stumbled. He secured a seat in the House of Representatives in 1902, but bids to become the mayor of New York faltered twice. He lost a 1906 campaign for New York governor, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David Nasaw, who wrote \u201cThe Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst,\u201d thinks Mr. Musk\u2019s use of X to rally supporters is as illusory as Hearst\u2019s supposed creation of a war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anywhere that Twitter gets out the MAGA vote,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hearst, in Mr. Nasaw\u2019s view, reflected the sentiments of his readers rather than leading them. But the historian agreed that something new was going on with Mr. Musk. Hearst, Ford, even Viscount Northcliffe and the other British press lords before World War II, all had something in common that ultimately limited them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey were outside the room, screaming,\u201d Mr. Nasaw said. \u201cTwitter was important for Musk but only to get him inside the room, into the government. He\u2019s unique in being both inside and outside with no constraints on his behavior. There\u2019s never been anything quite like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/business\/tesla-sales-elon-musk.html\" title=\"\">Tesla sales<\/a> are plunging. Hearst and Ford could have warned Mr. Musk: Courting controversy with hateful views is bad for your reputation and usually bad for your business, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ford was sued for libel over The Dearborn Independent and became the subject of boycotts. He closed the paper in 1927, although he did not repent his views. A stain lingered. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hearst went up against President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, putting his anti-Roosevelt screeds on the front page of his papers. As the editorials became increasingly abusive, readers had to choose: Whom are we going to support, the president or the publisher?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey chose Roosevelt,\u201d Mr. Nasaw said. \u201cWhich meant Hearst eventually destroyed himself and his newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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