Citizen Kane Research Paper

Citizen Kane shows the importance of the American media and the influence that it had from1895 to 1941. Citizen Kane describes the life of a media mogul who used his power to achieve his goals and push through his agenda. Citizen Kane was a movie based on a real life media mogul named William Randolph Hearst, who played a major role in controlling the media and influencing politics in the early 20th century. Charles Kane took over a failing newspaper and turned it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country. The way that he was able to achieve that amount of success was by exaggerating often lying about the stories he printed in order to get more sells and ratings. The influence of the media was an important factor in Charles Kane’s life and American policy. The power that he had over the media he had lead to everything he succeeded to his downfall. However Charles Kane’s exaggeration also lead to actions that had more sever consequences such as the Spanish-American war. Citizen Kane shows the true influence that the media had over the public at the time. Kane is shown to say that he can make his readers “what to think” and he does whether is just personal and petty gossip to fueling a war between two countries. The power of the U.S in the late 19th century to mid 20th century was extremely powerful and influential. During this …show more content…
From what we learn about Kane in the film he doesn’t really have political experience but his name is associated with the news and that makes people believe that he is qualified. Using the media Kane is able to turn his wife into an opera singer. His wife lacks the skills of a singer and even though people dislike her shows they keep coming to see her because his newspaper writes amazing reviews about her