William Randolph Hearst is important in American history because of his contributions to the journalism industry. He almost single-handedly created what is now known familiarly as the tabloids; a sensationalistic type of newspaper based on gaining consumers by shocking them, rather than informing them.

Originally, Joseph Pulitzer was the "Big Kahuna" that controlled the big newspapers in the area. William Randolph Hearst bought other newspapers with inherited money and muscled his competition out of the picture, spawning this new type of informative, or rather, less informative magazine-like newspaper that instead of telling the story twisted the facts and stretched the crimes until the story became interesting. A few tabloids such as the Evening Graphic were so vile that they even earned deserved nicknames, in this example, "The Pornographic."

Now in today's world, anytime you go to a supermarket you can see the tabloids that are made by...