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By most accounts putting the Examiner on the block is just a cynical move to assuage the concerns of the Justice Department before Hearst closes the afternoon paper and turns the city into one more one-daily town.
William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) was a millionaire newspaper baron.
The LAT reports that former President Jimmy Carter has been lobbying President Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst, the newspaper-magnate scion who in 1974 was famously kidnapped and "brainwashed" into robbing a bank with her captors (the "Symbionese Liberation Army").
A fold-out chart depicts how a few conglomerates (News Corp., Hearst, Viacom, Advance, etc.) control the publishing industry.
Although many Justice Department officials are opposed to a pardon, Carter says Hearst--now Patricia Hearst Shaw--has been a model citizen and mother since he commuted her sentence in 1979.