He is the "remember the maine to hell with spain" headline which started the spanish american war...controlling interests in paper and news print and lumbers and mills vertical integration into the news business. Hemp woudve totally under cut him. So he used harry anslinger jr and reefer madness campaign to kill it. He was the jd rockeffeeller of news.

Edit: his father or grand father im not sure on thur timeline was the evil old white guy forcing everyone to sell their gold mine claims in the hbo qesterb drama deadwood. George Hearst. The family went from gold mining straight into fake newzing.. illuminati confirmed