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Note: June 26: The New York Daily News begins publication under thedirection of Chicago Tribune veteran Joseph Medill Patterson,who instructs his editors: "Tell it to Sweeney -- theStuyvesants will take care of themselves."American journalist, coeditor and publisher--with his cousinRobert Rutherford McCormick<http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/5/0,5716,279084,00.html>--of the Chicago Tribune<http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/5/0,5716,279085,00.html> from 1914 to 1925; he subsequently became better knownas editor and publisher of the New York<http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/5/0,5716,279086,00.html> Daily News, the first successful tabloid newspaper inthe United States.A Tribune staff member from 1901, Patterson was an Illinoisstate legislator (1903-04) and Chicago commissioner of publicworks (1905-06). During World War I he served as a warcorrespondent in 1914-15 and, after the United States enteredthe war in 1917, as a combat officer. With McCormick he foundedthe New York Daily News (first published June 26, 1919), which,because of its sensationalism, soon attained a circulation ofnearly one million, the largest among American tabloids.Relinquishing to McCormick his authority over the Tribune,Patterson became sole editor and publisher of the Daily News in1925. A mild socialist as a young man, he later became moreconservative, as did the Daily News; the paper switched fromsupport of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies toisolationist opposition. He wrote:A Little Brother of the Rich, 1908 (novel and stage adaptation) Rebellion, 1911 (novel and stage adaptation) The Fourth Estate, (play, co-written with James Keely andHarriet Ford) 1909 By-Products, (play) 1913 Dope, (play) 1924 The Notebook of a Neutral, (articles about World War I) 1916 CONFESSIONS OF A DRONE, by Joseph Medill PattersonIf you think the rich are useless parasites, you're right. Inthis classic socialist pamphlet, Patterson shows how he and theother members of the upper class derive their income, and whatthey do to earn it (nothing). 8 pp., 50 �http://www.seesharppress.com/pamp.htm
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