| Name: |
Robert R. McCormick |
| Variant Name: |
|
| Birth Date: |
|
| Death Date: |
|
| Nationality: |
|
| Ethnicity: |
|
| Gender: |
|
It might be contended that Robert Rutherford McCormick was one of the few men in America--perhaps the only man--in whom the two divergent strains of American newspaperdom were combined. These two strains--personal journalism, as represented in the great editors of earlier days, and hardheaded manufacturing and publishing with a sharp eye to profits--were both so strong in his character as to make him a unique and formidable force in his time. As one commentator put it, "He not only knows what will sell and how to manage his big business shrewdly; he also knows what he believes and is willing to go to hell for it."
McCormick, also known as "the Colonel," was editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune for forty-five years. Although he earned the lasting hatred of many people for his isolationism and his staunch rejection of President Roosevelt and the New Deal, many of his policies and innovations had a lasting effect on the newspaper industry.
This is a free page. This page contains 151 words. This
biography contains 9,132 words (approx. 30 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our Robert R. McCormick Access Pass.
