Podcast appearances and mentions of washington times herald

The boys are back at Table 4 at Red Bones and ready to get after it! IU in shambles, some great hs basketball coming up and an update from Tyler on his Sopranos viewing.  Go see the folks at Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the ToddFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

We step away from Table 4 at the Bone for a pod to see a great place, the Vault in Petersburg. Good pizza, cold drinks and some lively conversation.  Go see the folks at Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

It's a surprise holiday pod for B3.  We have lots of Christmas  cheer combined with what you would expect from guys at a bar.  Hope you enjoy listening in! This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

Deco and Todd take you on a whimsical spin around the topics of today and yesteryear.  Join these gentleman in a lively discussion of topics of the upper decks of 1st class passengers like business and politics as well as the nitty gritty topics down in steerage. Try as the iceberg might, this ship ain't sinking.  This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.     Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.    Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.      Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.     Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.    Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

Deco and Todd are joined by Coach Josh Thompson to bring you topics such as, which teams play and are playing well, college football playoff thoughts, selling a massive ranch to your kid for $1, Mick Mars real name and a whole lot more. This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

Todd's back and we're rolling.  We hear Deco's story on Little Jimmy Dickens, talk basketball, Yacht Rock, and the time Todd guarded Alonzon Mourning. And that's just what I can think of.   This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to  Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

It's a summertime version of B3 and we tackle topics ranging from the WNBA, Barr Reeve's dream season, Jackson 5 vs the Osmonds and which host is whiter.     This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.     Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.    Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.      Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.     Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.    Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

We're back after spring break and we've got a doozy of an episode.  Kerrie Rosati of the IHSAA joins the guys to discuss the reclassification and how  BR volleyball can continue to be above their class.  The Toddfather, Deco and Bryno go on to touch on about 50 more topics.   This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

No agenda tonight it was a free flow of what you may hear if you sat next to us while we had a couple drinks and just discussed what came up.  HS bball, the NCAA tourney, what your hero's meant to you as a kid and how life seems to transition as you lose people.  And of course Wyatt gave us another record breaking review.   This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

It was a loose night at Table 4.  Semi State basketball, The Ramones, Aaron Rodgers as a VP candidate, Todd's haircut and more is what you overhear from the boys.  This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

The guys hit a whoooole bunch of topics. At the 14 minute mark you just may learn something along with us. PLUS a new Wyatt's Restaurant Review.  This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

Barr-Reeve wins the sectional in a 5 overtime thriller over Orleans and we are at Red Bones to discuss it.  Coach Josh Thompson and a host of other guests chime in on one of the historic games in IHSAA tournament history.    This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.     Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.    Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.      Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.     Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.    Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

We hit so many topics it's hard to list.  This is literally walking up on 3 guys in a bar and here's what you overhear.  IHSAA bball sectionals, the border controversy, IU, PU, the Barr Reeves senior-faculty game with Jeff Doyle, media consumption and attention span, you name it we discuss it.   This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

The guys discuss the NBA All Star game and how bad it is, HS bball, Night Country, John Travolta, and even a play by play bit by the Voice of the Vikings.  Have you had a paranormal incident?…..some of us have………let us know @B3Pod on X This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

A really fun night at Red Bones with Kurt Gutgsell of WBDC fame joining us at table 4. The conversation flowed as easily as the chicken wings and we needed more napkins.  Josh Thompson sits in for a bit and has opinions on breadsticks among other things and another Wyatt's Restaurant Review! No word on if the IHSAA will shut this down but Kurt is welcome on B3 anytime.  Follow Kurt on Facebook and see his great sports roundups every morning! This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno,, every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations, as he brings you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

We come to you this time from El Mazatlan after the Lady Vikings and Coach Higgins show.  We cover topics including the Wiggles, Night Country, Play by Play pet peeves, Covid and,well, anything else that came to mind.  Bryno apologizes to Linton, Deco talks service dogs and the Toddfather smashes a burrito.   This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations bring you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

Deco takes the reins as it looked like it would be a duo with him and the Toddfather but Bryno does an NWO style run in.  We cover a variety of topics mostly of the intellectual variety.  This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, pickleball, baseball and softball equipment. Tell them you heard about them on the B3 Podcast for a 5% discount.  Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations bring you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

It's a post Buggy Bowl edition of the show from Table 4 at Red Bones The wings were good (even though Bryno ordered the wrong ones) and the bar tab was open.  The guys have special guests, Jeff Doyle, Josh Thompson, Tyler Schultheis and Robert Sullivan join the conversation. And back by popular demand...Wyatt's Restaurant Review. This and every episode is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance. STOP KNOCKING ON WOOD! The show originates from table 4 at Red Bones Bar and Grill in Montgomery.   Thanks to our newest sponsor Golf Plus at 5601 E Virginia, Evansville, IN.  For all your golf, baseball and softball equipment see Max and tell him you heard about Golf Plus on the B3 Podcast Listen to other Empulse Radio show the Old School Red Hill Podcast.    Read the TodFather's  wise words in the Washington Times Herald and you'll be smarter for it.   Listen to Deco provide the Voice to the Vikings on the General 95.9 and 101.3 or stream at WAMWamfm.com and check out the Barr Reeve Media page on Facebook.  Hear Bryno every weekday morning on Shake Broadcasting stations bring you the sports report and tune in Saturday mornings to Fair Shake w/ Brian Emmons.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy remains one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century - an iconic First Lady who brought elegance, sophistication, and a cultivated cultural sensibility to the White House. But her formative early adult years provide a glimpse into a headstrong, confident young woman of great intelligence and ambition trying to find her way in the world.Carl Sferrazza Anthony, author of a new book, Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, offers a compelling look at the future First Lady in her years as an adventurous college student, as the Washington Times-Herald's inquiring camera girl, and as a vibrant single woman who had come to date and eventually marry the dashing U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy.Anthony is the author of a dozen books about presidents' wives and families, including As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Friends and Family, The Kennedy White House: Family Life & Pictures, 1961-1963 and the two-volume First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power, 1789-1990.

Two of our favorite people are BACK.  Lady Vikings Coach Lacey Higgins and Lady Hatchet Coach Gretchen Miles stop by Red Bones to discuss their season and getting ready for the sectional. We talk the state of girls basketball, officiating stories and we discuss our favorite “pump up songs.”  Hope you enjoy listening! To make sure you and your family are covered contact Travis Brett and Indiana Insurance.  ONE agent for all your insurance needs.  You'll never have a bad meal at Red Bones Bar and Grill where the Good Times Roll……. If  you have a future bride in the family, look no further than the Frock Bridal House in Bloomington. TheFrockBridal.com For more info on the Washington Community Concert Series go to www.washingtoncommunityconcerts.com See Todd Lancaster and his wise words in the Washington Times Herald. Listen to Mike Decoursey as he broadcasts all Barr Reeve sports as the Voice of the Vikings on both the Barr-Reeve Media Facebook and Youtube feed and WAMW. Be a good sport and listen to Brian Emmons every weekday  morning on WAMW & WRZR. 

The B3 Podcast new lineup is taking shape with Voice of the Vikings Mike DeCoursey and Washington Times Herald’s Todd Lancaster filling the co hosting chairs with Burkhart and Bryno.  The team is re-forming and looking forward to bringing you lots of great local sports talk.  We are also pleased to have Viking Super-Fan Wyatt Stone on the show to talk about his support of this Barr-Reeve team as well as other area squads. Wyatt is a great guest as he brings a genuine excitement about sports. Birdies Bourbon & Basketball is brought to you by Travis Brett and Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance and is an Empulse Radio production.  This episode was wriitten and produced by Mike Decoursey, Todd Lancaster, Blake Burkhart and  Brian Emmons.  Also a big thanks to our other sponsors, Casa Sevilla, Red Bones Bar and Grill, Country Oaks Golf Club and Sensible Solutions Waste Consulting. New shows each and every week on Monday morning and please share with your friends and enemies. Listen to the other Empulse Radio shows wherever you get your podcasts.  The Barr-Reeve Podcast, The Old School Red Hill Podcast, and the upcoming Bryno & Chip Show as well as Lady Hatchetology with Coach Gretchen Miles.  Facebook and Twitter @B3Pod

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder, the cousin of the Tribune‘s editor and the sister of the founder of the New York Daily News, Patterson's family were said to have ink in their veins and she was no exception. By the early 1930s, this titian-haired heiress was the only female editor of a U.S. major metropolitan daily. Patterson's life held tremendous contrasts–great beauty, big scandals and bitter animosities and intrigue– all of which Amanda Smith elegantly explores in Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (Knopf, 2011). As the title indicates, there is no shortage of drama here. The heiress to a newspaper fortune, the young Cissy Patterson slinked through Gilded Age society, famous for her inimitable gait. Following the trend of Americans making socially advantageous marriages to European aristocrats, Patterson wed a Russian count who abused her and kidnapped their only child. It's an incredible story given new life through Smith's research, which uncovered sources that reveal how- through the intervention of Patterson's family, President Taft and the Russian Czar- Patterson's three-year-old daughter was finally returned home. As a society girl, a Countess, an essayist, a rancher, a novelist and, most memorably, a newspaperwoman, Cissy Patterson pushed the boundaries of what women of her time were expected to do and her newspaper was almost a mirror of her self. Under her leadership, the Washington Times (later the Washington Times-Herald) became DC's most profitable paper thanks to Patterson's gossipy editorials, her fierce isolationism and her distinctive editorial bite. There was venom in her pen and readers were hooked. It's a testament to Smith's skill as a writer that even the ancillary characters in Newspaper Titan seem to burst fully alive from the page, giving the reader insight not only into Patterson's social circle but also an unusually keen sense of the personalities with whom she tussled. Ultimately, by Newspaper Titan‘s end, the impression one gains of Cissy Patterson is that of a woman who prized newsprint over people, a woman who was delightful after a drink but whose claws came out after three. Patterson was the first to admit this. She was quoted telling TIME, “The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.” And yet, it's that same cattiness that made her an influential force in the development of tabloid media then and which makes her such a beguiling biographical subject now. As Cissy Patterson herself said: “I'd rather raise hell than raise vegetables.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder, the cousin of the Tribune‘s editor and the sister of the founder of the New York Daily News, Patterson’s family were said to have ink in their veins and she was no exception. By the early 1930s, this titian-haired heiress was the only female editor of a U.S. major metropolitan daily. Patterson’s life held tremendous contrasts–great beauty, big scandals and bitter animosities and intrigue– all of which Amanda Smith elegantly explores in Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (Knopf, 2011). As the title indicates, there is no shortage of drama here. The heiress to a newspaper fortune, the young Cissy Patterson slinked through Gilded Age society, famous for her inimitable gait. Following the trend of Americans making socially advantageous marriages to European aristocrats, Patterson wed a Russian count who abused her and kidnapped their only child. It’s an incredible story given new life through Smith’s research, which uncovered sources that reveal how- through the intervention of Patterson’s family, President Taft and the Russian Czar- Patterson’s three-year-old daughter was finally returned home. As a society girl, a Countess, an essayist, a rancher, a novelist and, most memorably, a newspaperwoman, Cissy Patterson pushed the boundaries of what women of her time were expected to do and her newspaper was almost a mirror of her self. Under her leadership, the Washington Times (later the Washington Times-Herald) became DC’s most profitable paper thanks to Patterson’s gossipy editorials, her fierce isolationism and her distinctive editorial bite. There was venom in her pen and readers were hooked. It’s a testament to Smith’s skill as a writer that even the ancillary characters in Newspaper Titan seem to burst fully alive from the page, giving the reader insight not only into Patterson’s social circle but also an unusually keen sense of the personalities with whom she tussled. Ultimately, by Newspaper Titan‘s end, the impression one gains of Cissy Patterson is that of a woman who prized newsprint over people, a woman who was delightful after a drink but whose claws came out after three. Patterson was the first to admit this. She was quoted telling TIME, “The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.” And yet, it’s that same cattiness that made her an influential force in the development of tabloid media then and which makes her such a beguiling biographical subject now. As Cissy Patterson herself said: “I’d rather raise hell than raise vegetables.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder, the cousin of the Tribune‘s editor and the sister of the founder of the New York Daily News, Patterson’s family were said to have ink in their veins and she was no exception. By the early 1930s, this titian-haired heiress was the only female editor of a U.S. major metropolitan daily. Patterson’s life held tremendous contrasts–great beauty, big scandals and bitter animosities and intrigue– all of which Amanda Smith elegantly explores in Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (Knopf, 2011). As the title indicates, there is no shortage of drama here. The heiress to a newspaper fortune, the young Cissy Patterson slinked through Gilded Age society, famous for her inimitable gait. Following the trend of Americans making socially advantageous marriages to European aristocrats, Patterson wed a Russian count who abused her and kidnapped their only child. It’s an incredible story given new life through Smith’s research, which uncovered sources that reveal how- through the intervention of Patterson’s family, President Taft and the Russian Czar- Patterson’s three-year-old daughter was finally returned home. As a society girl, a Countess, an essayist, a rancher, a novelist and, most memorably, a newspaperwoman, Cissy Patterson pushed the boundaries of what women of her time were expected to do and her newspaper was almost a mirror of her self. Under her leadership, the Washington Times (later the Washington Times-Herald) became DC’s most profitable paper thanks to Patterson’s gossipy editorials, her fierce isolationism and her distinctive editorial bite. There was venom in her pen and readers were hooked. It’s a testament to Smith’s skill as a writer that even the ancillary characters in Newspaper Titan seem to burst fully alive from the page, giving the reader insight not only into Patterson’s social circle but also an unusually keen sense of the personalities with whom she tussled. Ultimately, by Newspaper Titan‘s end, the impression one gains of Cissy Patterson is that of a woman who prized newsprint over people, a woman who was delightful after a drink but whose claws came out after three. Patterson was the first to admit this. She was quoted telling TIME, “The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.” And yet, it’s that same cattiness that made her an influential force in the development of tabloid media then and which makes her such a beguiling biographical subject now. As Cissy Patterson herself said: “I’d rather raise hell than raise vegetables.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder, the cousin of the Tribune‘s editor and the sister of the founder of the New York Daily News, Patterson’s family were said to have ink in their veins and she was no exception. By the early 1930s, this titian-haired heiress was the only female editor of a U.S. major metropolitan daily. Patterson’s life held tremendous contrasts–great beauty, big scandals and bitter animosities and intrigue– all of which Amanda Smith elegantly explores in Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (Knopf, 2011). As the title indicates, there is no shortage of drama here. The heiress to a newspaper fortune, the young Cissy Patterson slinked through Gilded Age society, famous for her inimitable gait. Following the trend of Americans making socially advantageous marriages to European aristocrats, Patterson wed a Russian count who abused her and kidnapped their only child. It’s an incredible story given new life through Smith’s research, which uncovered sources that reveal how- through the intervention of Patterson’s family, President Taft and the Russian Czar- Patterson’s three-year-old daughter was finally returned home. As a society girl, a Countess, an essayist, a rancher, a novelist and, most memorably, a newspaperwoman, Cissy Patterson pushed the boundaries of what women of her time were expected to do and her newspaper was almost a mirror of her self. Under her leadership, the Washington Times (later the Washington Times-Herald) became DC’s most profitable paper thanks to Patterson’s gossipy editorials, her fierce isolationism and her distinctive editorial bite. There was venom in her pen and readers were hooked. It’s a testament to Smith’s skill as a writer that even the ancillary characters in Newspaper Titan seem to burst fully alive from the page, giving the reader insight not only into Patterson’s social circle but also an unusually keen sense of the personalities with whom she tussled. Ultimately, by Newspaper Titan‘s end, the impression one gains of Cissy Patterson is that of a woman who prized newsprint over people, a woman who was delightful after a drink but whose claws came out after three. Patterson was the first to admit this. She was quoted telling TIME, “The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.” And yet, it’s that same cattiness that made her an influential force in the development of tabloid media then and which makes her such a beguiling biographical subject now. As Cissy Patterson herself said: “I’d rather raise hell than raise vegetables.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder, the cousin of the Tribune‘s editor and the sister of the founder of the New York Daily News, Patterson’s family were said to have ink in their veins and she was no exception. By the early 1930s, this titian-haired heiress was the only female editor of a U.S. major metropolitan daily. Patterson’s life held tremendous contrasts–great beauty, big scandals and bitter animosities and intrigue– all of which Amanda Smith elegantly explores in Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (Knopf, 2011). As the title indicates, there is no shortage of drama here. The heiress to a newspaper fortune, the young Cissy Patterson slinked through Gilded Age society, famous for her inimitable gait. Following the trend of Americans making socially advantageous marriages to European aristocrats, Patterson wed a Russian count who abused her and kidnapped their only child. It’s an incredible story given new life through Smith’s research, which uncovered sources that reveal how- through the intervention of Patterson’s family, President Taft and the Russian Czar- Patterson’s three-year-old daughter was finally returned home. As a society girl, a Countess, an essayist, a rancher, a novelist and, most memorably, a newspaperwoman, Cissy Patterson pushed the boundaries of what women of her time were expected to do and her newspaper was almost a mirror of her self. Under her leadership, the Washington Times (later the Washington Times-Herald) became DC’s most profitable paper thanks to Patterson’s gossipy editorials, her fierce isolationism and her distinctive editorial bite. There was venom in her pen and readers were hooked. It’s a testament to Smith’s skill as a writer that even the ancillary characters in Newspaper Titan seem to burst fully alive from the page, giving the reader insight not only into Patterson’s social circle but also an unusually keen sense of the personalities with whom she tussled. Ultimately, by Newspaper Titan‘s end, the impression one gains of Cissy Patterson is that of a woman who prized newsprint over people, a woman who was delightful after a drink but whose claws came out after three. Patterson was the first to admit this. She was quoted telling TIME, “The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.” And yet, it’s that same cattiness that made her an influential force in the development of tabloid media then and which makes her such a beguiling biographical subject now. As Cissy Patterson herself said: “I’d rather raise hell than raise vegetables.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder, the cousin of the Tribune‘s editor and the sister of the founder of the New York Daily News, Patterson’s family were said to have ink in their veins and she was no exception. By the early 1930s, this titian-haired heiress was the only female editor of a U.S. major metropolitan daily. Patterson’s life held tremendous contrasts–great beauty, big scandals and bitter animosities and intrigue– all of which Amanda Smith elegantly explores in Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (Knopf, 2011). As the title indicates, there is no shortage of drama here. The heiress to a newspaper fortune, the young Cissy Patterson slinked through Gilded Age society, famous for her inimitable gait. Following the trend of Americans making socially advantageous marriages to European aristocrats, Patterson wed a Russian count who abused her and kidnapped their only child. It’s an incredible story given new life through Smith’s research, which uncovered sources that reveal how- through the intervention of Patterson’s family, President Taft and the Russian Czar- Patterson’s three-year-old daughter was finally returned home. As a society girl, a Countess, an essayist, a rancher, a novelist and, most memorably, a newspaperwoman, Cissy Patterson pushed the boundaries of what women of her time were expected to do and her newspaper was almost a mirror of her self. Under her leadership, the Washington Times (later the Washington Times-Herald) became DC’s most profitable paper thanks to Patterson’s gossipy editorials, her fierce isolationism and her distinctive editorial bite. There was venom in her pen and readers were hooked. It’s a testament to Smith’s skill as a writer that even the ancillary characters in Newspaper Titan seem to burst fully alive from the page, giving the reader insight not only into Patterson’s social circle but also an unusually keen sense of the personalities with whom she tussled. Ultimately, by Newspaper Titan‘s end, the impression one gains of Cissy Patterson is that of a woman who prized newsprint over people, a woman who was delightful after a drink but whose claws came out after three. Patterson was the first to admit this. She was quoted telling TIME, “The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch.” And yet, it’s that same cattiness that made her an influential force in the development of tabloid media then and which makes her such a beguiling biographical subject now. As Cissy Patterson herself said: “I’d rather raise hell than raise vegetables.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices