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In contemporary American public culture, the legacy of the consumer revolution of the 1960s is unmistakable. Today, there are few things more beloved of our masses than the figure of the cultural rebel, the defiant individualist resisting the mandates of the machine civilization. Whether he is an athlete decked out in a mowhawk and multiple-pierced ears, a policeman who plays by his own rules, an actor on a motorcycle, a soldier of fortune with explosive bow and arrow, or a rock star in leather jacket and sunglasses, the rebel has become the paramount cliché of our popular entertainment, and the pre-eminent symbol of the system he is supposed to be subverting. In advertising especially, he rules supreme

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Arthur Brisbane

Arthur Brisbane

Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936) was an American newspaper editor, born in Buffalo, N. Y., and educated in the public schools of the United States and Europe. In 1882, he began newspaper work in New York City as a reporter for the Sun . He remained occupied in the newspapers field until the 1920s.

In 1897, he accepted the editorship of the New York Evening Journal which was in the "Hearst chain" of newspapers sold throughout the country. His position with the Evening Journal gave Arthur Brisbane a wide influence as an editor unmatched in the United States. His direct and forceful style has influenced the form of American editorials. Some of his writings were collected in 1906 under the title Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers.

In 1917, he bought the Washington Times , and in 1918 he bought the Evening Wisconsin , then sold them to William Randolph Hearst in 1919. In 1918, he became editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner . He resigned from the editorship of the New York Evening Journal in 1921.

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