The San Francisco Examiner

William Hurst's father bought a newspaper called the San Francisco Examiner out in San Francisco. The paper lost money every year, but George Hurst was politically active and wanted to get his voice out there. William starts reading his father's paper; he is not impressed with what he finds. He writes back to his dad: It is a positive insult to our readers to set before them such pictures of repulsive deformity as these.