On the steps of The Washington Post’s building in 1933, lawyers representing media mogul William Randolph Hearst made an $800,000 bid for the newspaper in a bankruptcy auction. An anonymous bidder went to $825,000. Hearst, the epitome of the Gilded Age press baron, dropped out.
1933年,在《華盛頓郵報》(The Washington Post)報社門前的臺階上,媒體大亨威廉?蘭道夫?赫斯特(William Randolph Hearst)的代理律師在這家報紙的破產拍賣中開出了80萬美元的價格。一位匿名買家將價格抬高到了82.5萬美元。于是,赫斯特這位“鍍金時代”(Gilded Age)典型的報業大亨退出了競拍。
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