When ‘Citizen Kane’ was originally released in 1941, it gave an insight into the manipulation and distortion of the press by scrutinizing Kane’s desire to gain control. As Kane’s character is based on newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst, Welles depicts Kane’s influential media control by exposing the beginning of “yellow journalism” as Kane reiterates Hearst’s famous note, “you provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.” Kane’s unethical abuse of media power expressed when Kane states “I’ve got to make The Inquirer as important to the people of New York as the gas in that light”, supports Jewison’s note that the film is “trying to tell us something about power and the use of power over the citizens.” Kane’s determined tone accompanied
