Why would William Randolph Hearst dislike Theodore Roosevelt?

Answer 1

Hearst was a rich (make that very rich), influential (make that exceedingly influential) and powerful (make that very, very powerful) newspaper magnate. He owned so many US newspapers, that he was able to sway public opinion and eventually caused the call for war with Spain. After the war, When Roosevelt became President, he got the reputation of being a "trustbuster" and, as Hearst in effect ran a trust with the control of his newspapers, TR was not on Hearst's Best Friends list.

TR was also known as a man who considered honesty not only as a virtue, but considered it to be an essential element of public discourse. Yellow Journalism made a specialty out of bendingthe truth, but also of breaking it asunder and trampling it on the ground.

Today it might be called journalistic bias or a "different point of view", or it might be called the "other side of the story".

Headlines and hardliners, attention getter's. Photojournalism and Wild Graphic Art were the name of the game. Add cartoon strips, art by people like Freerick Remington, and great philosophers provideng commentary for a penny a copy and Pulitzer's papers had to come out as loosers.