The Bradenton Herald is a newspaper based in Bradenton, Florida , in the United States.
79-587: On September 15, 1922, Volume 1, Number 1 was published as The Evening Herald . It was a merger of two weekly papers: the Manatee River Journal , which had published since the 1880s, and The Bradentown Herald Weekly . The newspaper was at No. 414 Pine Street in downtown Bradenton; the phone number, 28. In the mid-1920s, Pine Street was renamed and the newspaper's home was at 401 13th St. W. (It would remain there until July 1984, when it moved to its present home at 102 Manatee Ave. W.) The Evening Herald
158-706: A Special Relationship with the British Empire , as particularly demonstrated by demands for tolerating only the English language in the United States . In a letter published on 16 July 1916 in the Minneapolis Journal , Edward Goldbeck, a member of Minnesota 's traditionally very large German-American community, sarcastically announced that his people would "abandon the hyphen", as soon as English-Americans did so. Meanwhile, he argued, "Let
237-679: A Knight newspaper. The minority stake in WAKR's parent company, Summit Radio, also included the establishment of WAKR-TV (channel 49) , as well as WAKR-FM (97.5) and six radio stations purchased in Dayton, Ohio , Dallas , Texas, and Denver , Colorado. WAKR-TV was built and signed on by Summit on July 23, 1953, as the Akron market's ABC affiliate, moving to channel 23 on December 1, 1967. Knight Ridder divested its stake in Summit Radio by 1977;
316-642: A brief time, the combined company was the largest newspaper publisher in the United States. Knight Ridder had a long history of innovation in technology . It was the first newspaper publisher to experiment with videotex when it launched its Viewtron system in 1983. After investing six years of research and $ 50 million into the service, Knight Ridder shut down Viewtron in 1986 when the service's interactivity features proved more popular than news delivery. Knight-Ridder purchased Dialog Information Services Inc. from Lockheed Corporation in August 1988. In October 1988,
395-596: A list of all German aliens, counting approximately 480,000 of them. The Committee of Internment of Alien Enemies recommended sending them to internment camps, though the idea was opposed by the War Department and the Attorney General. More than 4,000 German aliens were imprisoned in 1917–1918. The allegations included spying for Germany and endorsing the German war effort. When the United States entered
474-555: A morning publication. The next year, it moved from its cramped, old downtown building to an 87,000-square-foot building, where it also shed its aging Linotype machines for offset printing. It published its last edition on 13th Street on July 7, 1984, and its first edition on Manatee Avenue on July 8, 1984. The Herald entered cyberspace in January 1996 when its website, www.Bradenton.com, was launched as Bradenton Herald Internet Plus (BHIP). The Bradenton Herald online edition went behind
553-577: A new direct tax, commonly known as the Direct Tax of 1798 or the House Tax. President John Adams granted pardons to Fries and several others who had been convicted of treason. Adams was motivated by the more specific constitutional interpretation of treason. He later remarked that the rebels were "obscure, miserable Germans, as unfamiliar with our language as they were with our laws," and suggested that they were being manipulated by prominent figures in
632-528: A paywall in December 2012. Currently subscribers can get unlimited access for 99 cents for a trial month and under $ 7 a month after that. The Bradenton Herald moved in September 2013 to its new headquarters in downtown Bradenton located at 1111 Third Ave. W. In May 2016 The Bradenton Herald discontinued production of its zoned edition, The Lakewood Ranch Herald , which had focused on local coverage of
711-520: A planned merger between the two entities in 1968 failed to be consummated. In 1954, Ridder Newspapers launched WDSM-TV in Superior , Wisconsin , serving the Duluth , Minnesota market. Initially a CBS affiliate, it switched to its present NBC affiliation a year and a half after the station's launch. It was spun off after Ridder's merger with Knight Newspapers, Inc. From 1956 to 1962, Knight and
790-520: A purchase price of $ 6.5 billion in cash, stock and debt. The deal gave McClatchy 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets, with a total circulation of 3.3 million. However, for various reasons, McClatchy decided immediately to resell twelve of these papers. On April 26, 2006, McClatchy announced it was selling the San Jose Mercury News , Contra Costa Times , Monterey Herald , and St. Paul Pioneer Press to MediaNews Group (with backing from
869-847: Is Germanophilia . In the Pennsylvania Colony during British America , Anglo-Americans held much anti-German sentiment. The sentiments against the Palatine settlers, commonly referred to as the Pennsylvania Dutch (or Pennsylvania Germans), were deeply rooted in cultural biases and economic competition. Anglo-Americans in the Pennsylvania Colony viewed the Palatines with suspicion and often derided their language, customs, and religious practices. The Palatines, predominantly German-speaking Protestants from
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#1732794552397948-617: The American Party , which had an openly xenophobic stance. One of many incidents described in a 19th-century account included the blocking of a funeral procession in New York by a group who proceeded to hurl insults at the pallbearers. Incidents such as these led to more meetings of Germans who would eventually form fraternal groups such as the Sons of Hermann in 1840, which was founded as a means to "improve and foster German customs and
1027-544: The British royal family . King George V was persuaded to change his German name of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor and relinquish all German titles and styles on behalf of his relatives who were British subjects. Prince Louis of Battenberg was not only forced to change his name to Mountbatten, he was forced to resign as First Sea Lord, the most senior position in the Royal Navy. The German Shepherd breed of dog
1106-544: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra until he finalized his naturalization papers. Orchestras replaced music by German composer Wagner with French composer Berlioz . After xenophobic Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck of refusing to play The Star-Spangled Banner and triggered a trial by media in October 1917, Muck and 29 of
1185-610: The Cox publishing family jointly operated Biscayne Television, which owned NBC affiliate WCKT in Miami, Florida , as well as WCKR radio , which this entity purchased from Cox; Knight sold off WQAM to a third party as part of Biscayne's formation. Revelations of improper behavior and underhanded tactics by Biscayne and National Airlines (which signed on WPST-TV , also in Miami ) to secure their licenses, along with ethics violations within
1264-568: The Duke of Connaught , while visiting Berlin, Ontario, in May 1914, had discussed the importance of Canadians of German ethnicity (regardless of their origin) in a speech: "It is of great interest to me that many of the citizens of Berlin are of German descent. I well know the admirable qualities – the thoroughness, the tenacity, and the loyalty of the great Teutonic Race, to which I am so closely related. I am sure that these inherited qualities will go far in
1343-829: The First World War and some cultural sanctions. There were anti-German riots in Victoria, British Columbia , and Calgary , Alberta , in the first years of the war. It was this anti-German sentiment that precipitated the Berlin to Kitchener name change in 1916. The city was named after Lord Kitchener , famously pictured on the " Lord Kitchener Wants You " recruiting posters. Several streets in Toronto that had previously been named for Liszt, Humboldt, Schiller, Bismarck, etc., were changed to names with strong British associations, such as Balmoral. The Governor General of Canada,
1422-617: The Hearst Corporation ) for $ 1 billion. Daily newspapers owned by Knight Ridder and its predecessors – listed alphabetically by place of publication – included: A list of companies that were at one time or another owned by Knight Ridder: Knight Newspapers entered broadcasting in 1946 via the purchase of minority ownership stakes in WQAM in Miami, WIND in Chicago, and WAKR in Akron; all three stations were in markets served by
1501-530: The Herald became a KR paper. In 2006, The Bradenton Herald was again sold, as one of the newspapers included in the sale of Knight Ridder newspapers to The McClatchy Company , based in Sacramento, California. From its modest beginnings in 1922 as The Evening Herald , The Bradenton Herald has grown and changed along with its community. The Herald shed its "evening" past on January 1, 1983, when it became
1580-711: The Palatinate region of present-day Germany, arrived in Pennsylvania seeking religious freedom and economic opportunities in the early 18th century. Benjamin Franklin 's complaints about the Palatine refugees in his work Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind (1751) : Why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their language and manners to
1659-812: The Second Boer War on international financiers "chiefly German in origin and chiefly Jewish in race". Most of these ideas about German-Jewish conspiracies originated from right-wing figures such as Arnold White , Hilaire Belloc , and Leo Maxse , the latter using his publication the National Review to spread them. In 1914, when Germany invaded neutral Belgium and northern France, Imperial German Army regularly court martialed Belgian and French civilians under German military law for offenses including espionage , perfidy , or being francs-tireurs (illegal civilian combatants) and executed 6,500 of them. These acts were both exploited and exaggerated by
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#17327945523971738-697: The Transvaal congratulating him for repelling the British Jameson Raid . At that time, attacks on Germans in London were reported by the German press, but contrary to the reports, no attacks occurred. The Saturday Review suggested: "be ready to fight Germany, as Germania delenda est " ("Germany is to be destroyed"), a reference to Cato the Elder 's coda against the Carthaginians during
1817-766: The Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower in rural Kitchener, Ontario, commemorates the settlement by the Pennsylvania Dutch (actually Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch or German ) of the Grand River area in the 1800s in what later became Waterloo County, Ontario . When Britain declared war on Germany, naturalized Australian subjects born in enemy countries and Australian-born descendants of migrants born in enemy countries were declared "enemy aliens". Approximately 4,500 "enemy aliens" of German or Austro-Hungarian descent were interned in Australia during
1896-605: The FCC itself, resulted in the licenses for both stations being revoked. A replacement license for WCKT was granted in 1960 to Sunbeam Television , the lone bidder for the prior license not to have engaged in any unethical behavior; Biscayne sold to Sunbeam WCKT's non-license assets: the studios, intellectual property and all off- and on-air personnel for the new station, which took the WCKT name for continuity. Cox repurchased WCKR, reviving that station's prior WIOD call sign. Following
1975-572: The First World War, proportionately more than at any other time in our history. So there were these latent fears about foreigners ... It becomes very easy to stoke these racist, nativist fires and convince people there really is a threat. War propaganda is top-down driven, but it's effective because it re-enforces tendencies that already exist. A document in the Archives of Canada makes the following comment: "Although ludicrous to modern eyes,
2054-588: The Germans, and would very much rather be fighting the French! ... It was a fine sight to see the Germans coming on in solid formation, in front of our machine guns ... they were generally led by one officer in front who came along to certain death as cool as a cucumber, with his sword held straight up in front of him at the salute. Robert Graves who, like the King, also had German relatives, wrote shortly after
2133-702: The Imperial family's German roots and the presence of many German names in the Russian political elite. Negative comments about Germany were first made in Britain in the 1870s, following the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71. British war planners believed that they needed to prevent a possible German invasion of Britain. Britain, The Island Nation, feared invasion, leading to
2212-651: The Knight-Ridder chain refusing to run the two reporters' stories. After the war and the discrediting of many initial news reports written and carried by others, Strobel and Landay received the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award from the Senate Press Gallery on February 5, 2004, for their coverage. The Huffington Post headlined the two as "the reporting team that got Iraq right". The Columbia Journalism Review described
2291-653: The Restriction Order in July 1915 prohibited enemy aliens and naturalized subjects from changing their name or the name of any business they ran. Under the War Precautions Act of 1914 (which survived the First World War), publication of German language material was prohibited and schools attached to Lutheran churches were forced to abandon German as the language of teaching or were closed by
2370-629: The Roman Republic. The Kaiser's reputation was further degraded by his angry tirades and the 1908 Daily Telegraph Affair . Following the signing of the Entente Cordiale alliance in 1904 between the United Kingdom and France, official relationships cooled, as did popular attitudes towards Germany and German residents in Britain. A fear of German militarism replaced a previous admiration for German culture and literature. At
2449-528: The Royal Commission on Alien Immigration believed that Germans were involved in prostitution and burglary , and many people also believed that Germans who were working in Britain were threatening the livelihoods of Britons by being willing to work for longer hours. Anti-German hostility began to intensify in early 1896 when Kaiser Wilhelm II sent the Kruger telegram to President Paul Kruger of
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2528-597: The Russian people. It was further suggested by some writers that Russian citizens of German origin who did not speak Russian and follow the Orthodox faith should be considered foreigners. It was also proposed that people of German descent be forbidden from holding diplomatic posts, as they might not have "solidarity with respect to Russia". Despite the press campaign against Germans, Germanophobic feelings did not develop in Russia to any widespread extent and died out because of
2607-649: The United Kingdom. Most of these were found to be originating from Germany, whose government had introduced a protectionist policy to legally prohibit the import of goods in order to build up domestic industry (Merchandise Marks Act - Oxford University Press). In the 1890s, German immigrants in the UK were the targets of "some hostility". Joseph Bannister believed that German residents of Britain were mostly "gambling-house keepers, hotel-porters, barbers, 'bullies', runaway conscripts, bath-attenders, street musicians, criminals, bakers, socialists , cheap clerks , etc". Interviewees for
2686-630: The Volunteers, who would join it at Dorking, and would force upon England a disastrous peace. In 1894, the newspaper publisher Lord Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe commissioned author William Le Queux to write the serial novel The Great War in England in 1897 , which featured France and Russia combining their forces in an attempt to crush Britain. Happily, German intervention on Britain's side forced France and Russia to retreat. Twelve years later, however, Harmsworth asked him to reverse
2765-464: The War. In Australia, an official proclamation of 10 August 1914 required all German citizens to register their domiciles at the nearest police station and to notify authorities of any change of address. Under the later Aliens Restriction Order of 27 May 1915, enemy aliens who had not been interned had to report to the police once a week and could only change address with official permission. An amendment to
2844-405: The anti-German feeling was created by the press that tried to create the idea that all those of German birth or descent supported Germany uncritically. This is despite many Germans and offspring such as Gen. John Monash serving Australia capably and honorably. A booklet circulated widely in 1915 claimed that "there were over 3,000 German spies scattered throughout the states". Anti-German propaganda
2923-625: The authorities. German clubs and associations were also closed. The original German names of settlements and streets were officially changed. In South Australia , Grunthal became Verdun and Krichauff became Beatty . In New South Wales Germantown became Holbrook after the submarine commander Norman Douglas Holbrook . This pressure was strongest in South Australia where 69 towns changed their names, including Petersburg, South Australia, which became Peterborough (see Australian place names changed from German names ). Most of
3002-475: The bust of Kaiser Wilhelm II from Victoria Park and dumped it into a lake; soldiers vandalized German stores. History professor Mark Humphries summarized the situation: Before the war, most people in Ontario probably didn't give the German community a second thought. But it's important to remember that Canada was a society in transition – the country had absorbed massive numbers of immigrants between 1896 and
3081-548: The company placed its eight broadcast television stations up for sale to reduce debt and to pay for the purchase of Dialog. In 1997, when Tony Ridder was CEO, it bought four newspapers from The Walt Disney Company formerly owned by Capital Cities Communications , after Disney's purchase of Cap Cities mainly for the ABC television network ( The Kansas City Star , Fort Worth Star-Telegram , Belleville News-Democrat and (Wilkes-Barre) Times Leader for $ 1.65 billion. It was, at
3160-549: The company's president, was killed in a car accident en route to Bradenton from Columbus. Chapman then became president of the Page Corp. and moved to Columbus with his family. His son, Alvah H. Chapman Jr., would follow in his father's footsteps and retired in 1989 as chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc. , which was then the publisher of The Bradenton Herald . The Page Corp. had become part of Knight Newspapers Inc. in 1973; Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications Inc. merged in 1974 and
3239-569: The death of Mikhail Lomonosov was marked throughout the Russian Empire by articles being published that mentioned the difficulties that Lomonosov had encountered from the foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences , most of whom were of German descent. The authors then criticized contemporary German scholars for their neglect of the Russian language and for printing articles in foreign languages while they received funds from
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3318-716: The divestment of their stake in Summit Radio, Knight Ridder acquired Poole Broadcasting, which consisted of WJRT-TV in Flint , Michigan , WTEN in Albany , New York and its satellite WCDC in Adams , Massachusetts , and WPRI-TV in Providence , Rhode Island . Immediately after the acquisition of these stations was finalized, Knight Ridder cut a corporate affiliation deal with ABC, switching then-CBS affiliates WTEN/WCDC and WPRI (the latter of which eventually rejoined CBS) to ABC (WJRT
3397-413: The enemies, making Germany the villain. The result was the bestselling The Invasion of 1910 , which originally appeared in serial form in the Daily Mail in 1906. Now, Harmsworth used his newspapers the "Daily Mail" and "The Times" to denounce Berlin, inducing an atmosphere of paranoia, mass hysteria and Germanophobia that would reach their climax in the Naval Scare of 1908–09. German food such as
3476-459: The exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens , who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of us Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion. Pennsylvania was a major state and a former colony that saw an attraction and influence of German immigrants from the colonial era. A key event where German-Americans faced hardships
3555-408: The exodus of Anglo-Americans start at once! Let all those people go who think that America is a new England!" A much smaller minority of German Americans came out openly for Germany. Similarly, Harvard psychology professor Hugo Münsterberg dropped his efforts to mediate between America and Germany, and threw his efforts behind the German war effort. The Justice Department attempted to prepare
3634-406: The few who had immigrated from Germany (not born in Canada) could not morally fight against a country that was a significant part of their heritage. News reports during the war years indicate that "A Lutheran minister was pulled out of his house ... he was dragged through the streets. German clubs were ransacked through the course of the war. It was just a really nasty time period." Someone stole
3713-462: The governments of the Allied Powers , who produced atrocity propaganda dehumanizing Germans as gorilla -like Huns who were all racially inclined to sadism and violence. In Great Britain, anti-German feeling led to infrequent rioting, assaults on suspected Germans and the looting of businesses owned by people with German-sounding names, occasionally even taking on an antisemitic tone. Increasing anti-German hysteria even threw suspicion upon
3792-440: The making of good Canadians and loyal citizens of the British Empire". Some immigrants from Germany who considered themselves Canadians but were not yet citizens, were detained in internment camps during the War. In fact, by 1919 most of the population of Kitchener, Waterloo, and Elmira in Waterloo County, Ontario , were Canadian. The German-speaking Amish and Mennonites were Christian pacifists so they could not enlist and
3871-408: The natives in India, disturbances in Ireland, and a conflict with the United States threatening Canadian security, to employ her navy and standing army far from her own shores; in spite of this dangerous position England, on account of a quarrel with Germany over Denmark, would declare war on Germany. The latter would land an army in England which would conquer the remaining parts of the British army and
3950-406: The opposing political party. In the 19th century, the mass influx of German immigrants made them one of the largest European group of Americans by ancestry. This wave of migration triggered the formation of nativist and reactionary movements which were similar to those movements which exist in the contemporary Western world . These would eventually culminate in 1844 with the establishment of
4029-408: The orchestra's musicians were arrested and interned in Fort Oglethorpe , Georgia, until well after the Armistice. In Nashville, Tennessee , Luke Lea , the publisher of The Tennessean , together with "political associates", "conspired unsuccessfully to have the German-born Major Stahlman declared an "alien enemy" after World War I began." Stahlman was the publisher of a competing newspaper,
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#17327945523974108-466: The popularity of the invasion novel . According to Alfred Vagts " The Battle of Dorking ": appeared first in Blackwood's Magazine in the summer of 1871, at a time when the German Crown Prince and his English wife [the daughter of Queen Victoria] were visiting England. Impressed by the late German victories, the author, a Colonel Chesney, who remained anonymous for some time, told the story of how England, in 1875, would be induced by an insurrection of
4187-399: The privileges of the Baltic German nobility in the Baltic governorates and Finland be preserved. Mikhail Katkov published a harsh criticism of the article in the Moscow News , which in turn caused a flood of angry articles in which Russian writers expressed their irritation with Europeans in which some featured direct attacks on Germans. The following year, the 100th anniversary of
4266-539: The rapidly growing eastern region of Manatee County since 2006. On February 13, 2020, The McClatchy Company and 54 affiliated companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . The company cited pension obligations and excessive debt as the primary reasons for the filing. Radtke Russell, Pam (December 29, 1996). "HERALD OWNERSHIP THROUGH THE YEARS". The Bradenton Herald . Knight-Ridder Inc. Knight Ridder / ˈ r ɪ d ər /
4345-405: The reasons behind the Bush Administration 's 2003 invasion of Iraq . Anti-German sentiment Anti-German sentiment (also known as anti-Germanism , Germanophobia or Teutophobia ) is opposition to and/or fear of, hatred of, dislike of, persecution of, prejudice against, and discrimination against Germany , its inhabitants , its culture , and/or its language . Its opposite
4424-443: The reporting as "unequaled by the Bigfoots working at higher-visibility outlets such as the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times ". Later after the war, their work was featured in Bill Moyers ' PBS documentary "Buying The War" and was dramatized in the 2017 film Shock and Awe . On March 13, 2006, The McClatchy Company announced its agreement to purchase Knight Ridder for
4503-424: The rest of Silicon Valley. The internet division had been established there three years earlier. The company rented several floors in a downtown high-rise as its new corporate base. In November 2005, the company announced plans for "strategic initiatives," which involved the possible sale of the company. This came after three major institutional shareholders publicly urged management to put the company up for sale. At
4582-442: The same time, journalists produced a stream of articles on the threat posed by Germany. In the Daily Telegraph Affair of 1908–09, the Kaiser, in a badly misjudged attempt to show Germany's friendship towards England, said that he was among a minority of Germans friendly to Britain, that he had sent a military plan to Queen Victoria during the Boer War which the British Army had used successfully, and that Germany's fleet buildup
4661-417: The sausage was deprecated by Germanophobes. In the late 19th century, the label Made in Germany was introduced. The label was originally introduced in Britain by the Merchandise Marks Act 1887 ( 50 & 51 Vict. c. 28), to mark foreign produce more obviously, as foreign manufacturers had been falsely marking inferior goods with the marks of renowned British manufacturing companies and importing them into
4740-476: The spread of benevolence among Germans in the United States". In the mid-1850s and 1860s, Russia experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia after Austria refused to support it during the Crimean War . It was restricted mainly to a small group of writers in St. Petersburg that united around a left-wing newspaper. In 1864, it began with the publication of an article by a writer (using the pseudonym "Shedoferotti") who proposed that Poland be given autonomy and that
4819-595: The time, the company had a higher profit margin than many Fortune 500 companies, including ExxonMobil . In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq , Knight Ridder DC Bureau reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel wrote a series of articles critical of purported intelligence suggesting links between Saddam Hussein , the obtainment of weapons of mass destruction , and Al-Qaeda , citing anonymous sources. Landay and Strobel's stories ran counter to reports by The New York Times , The Washington Post and other national publications, resulting in some newspapers within
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#17327945523974898-400: The time, the most expensive newspaper acquisition in history. For most of its existence, the company was based in Miami, with headquarters on the top floor of the Miami Herald building. In 1998, Knight Ridder relocated its headquarters from Miami to San Jose, Calif.; there, that city's Mercury News —the first daily newspaper to regularly publish its full content online—was booming along with
4977-484: The waiter's passport. In 1903, Erskine Childers published The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service a novel in which two Englishmen uncover a plot by Germany to Invade England; it was later made into a 1979 film The Riddle of the Sands . At the same time, conspiracy theories which combined Germanophobia with antisemitism were concocted, they focused on the supposed foreign control of Britain, some of these conspiracy theories blamed Britain's entry into
5056-445: The war during his time at Oxford University as an undergraduate that: The eighteenth century owed its unpopularity largely to its Frenchness. Anti-French feeling among most ex-soldiers amounted almost to an obsession. Edmund, shaking with nerves, used to say at this time: "No more wars for me at any price! Except against the French. If ever there is a war against them, I'll go like a shot." Pro-German feeling had been increasing. With
5135-468: The war in 1917, some German Americans were looked upon with suspicion and attacked regarding their loyalty. Propaganda posters and newspaper commentary fed the growing fear. In Wisconsin, a Lutheran minister faced suspicion for hosting Germans in his home, while a language professor was tarred and feathered for having a German name and teaching the language. The Red Cross barred individuals with German last names from joining in fear of sabotage. One person
5214-424: The war over and the German armies beaten, we could give the German soldier credit for being the most efficient fighting man in Europe ... Some undergraduates even insisted that we had been fighting on the wrong side: our natural enemies were the French. In Canada, there was some anti-German sentiment in Germanic communities, including Berlin, Ontario ( Kitchener, Ontario ) in Waterloo County, Ontario , before and
5293-427: The whole issue of a name for Berlin highlights the effects that fear, hatred and nationalism can have upon a society in the face of war." Internment camps across Canada opened in 1915 and 8,579 "enemy aliens" were held there until the end of the war; many were German speaking immigrants from Austria-Hungary , Germany, and Ukraine. Only 3,138 were classed as prisoners of war; the rest were civilians. Built in 1926,
5372-727: Was already affiliated with ABC when the affiliation deal was made). As part of the deal, Poole Broadcasting would eventually become Knight Ridder Broadcasting. Knight Ridder would acquire several television stations in medium-sized markets during the 1980s, including three stations owned by The Detroit News which the Gannett Company —which purchased the newspaper in 1986—could not keep due to Federal Communications Commission regulations on media cross-ownership and/or television duopolies then in effect. (None of Knight Ridder's later acquisitions changed their network affiliations under Knight Ridder ownership; for example, then-NBC affiliate WALA-TV in Mobile , Alabama remained an NBC affiliate when it
5451-972: Was also inspired by several local and foreign companies who were keen to take the opportunity to eliminate Germany as a competitor in the Australian market. Germans in Australia were increasingly portrayed as evil by the very nature of their origins. After the revelation of the Zimmermann Telegram partly sparked the American declaration of war against Imperial Germany in April 1917, German Americans were sometimes accused of being too sympathetic to Germany. Former president Theodore Roosevelt denounced " hyphenated Americanism ", while also insisting that dual loyalties were impossible. A vocal source of criticism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson 's "anti-hyphen" ideology and particularly to their demands for "100% Americanism" came, quite understandably, from America's enormous number of White ethnic immigrants and their descendants. Criticism from these circles occasionally argued that "100% Americanism" really meant Anglophilia and
5530-425: Was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing . Until it was bought by McClatchy on June 27, 2006, it was the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspaper brands sold. Its headquarters were located in San Jose , California . The corporate ancestors of Knight Ridder were Knight Newspapers, Inc. and Ridder Publications, Inc. The first company
5609-406: Was directed not against Britain but the " yellow peril " of the East.. Articles in Harmsworth's Daily Mail regularly advocated anti-German sentiments throughout the twentieth century, telling their readers to refuse service at restaurants by Austrian or German waiters on the claim that they were spies and told them that if a German-sounding waiter claimed to be Swiss that they should demand to see
5688-522: Was during the Fries's Rebellion . The participants in Fries's Rebellion were primarily German-speaking farmers, many of whom were recent immigrants or descendants of German immigrants. Their cultural and linguistic differences may have contributed to perceptions of them as outsiders or "other" by some in the broader American society. The rebellion was primarily a response to the federal government's enforcement of
5767-453: Was followed by the following month with the sale of KTVY-TV to WHO-TV owner Palmer Communications, for $ 50 million. WTEN was the next-to-last station to be sold, going to Young Broadcasting for $ 38 million, and WJRT would eventually becoming the final Knight Ridder station, to be sold to SJL Broadcasting for $ 39 million. • Shock and Awe , 2018 film about a group of journalists at Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau who investigate
5846-677: Was founded by John S. Knight upon inheriting control of the Akron Beacon Journal from his father, Charles Landon Knight , in 1933; the second company was founded by Herman Ridder when he acquired the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung , a German language newspaper, in 1892. As anti-German sentiment increased in the interwar period , Ridder successfully transitioned into English language publishing by acquiring The Journal of Commerce in 1926. Both companies went public in 1969 and merged on July 11, 1974. For
5925-461: Was killed by a mob; in Collinsville, Illinois , German-born Robert Prager was dragged from jail as a suspected spy and lynched. Some aliens were convicted and imprisoned on charges of sedition for refusing to swear allegiance to the United States war effort. Thousands were forced to buy war bonds to show their loyalty. In Chicago , Frederick Stock was forced to step down as conductor of
6004-705: Was owned by Knight Ridder and would switch to Fox several years after Knight Ridder sold the station.) In early 1989, Knight Ridder announced its exit from broadcasting, selling all of its stations to separate buyers; the sales were finalized in the summer and early fall of that year. This deal was made in order to reduce their debt loads from the proceedings. One of the stations, WALA-TV went to Burnham Broadcasting for $ 40 million, while WKRN would go to Young Broadcasting for $ 50 million, KOLD-TV to News-Press & Gazette Company for an undisclosed price, and two television stations WPRI and WTKR to Narragansett Television L.P. for $ 150 million on February 18, 1989. This
6083-477: Was published Monday through Saturday until 1926, when the Saturday publication was replaced by a Sunday edition and the name was changed to The Bradenton Herald . In 1953 the Saturday edition resumed. Co-owners Raymond P. Sponenbarger and Robert W. Bentley sold the paper in 1925 to the R.W. Page Corp. of Columbus, Ga. Alvah H. Chapman Sr. became publisher and served in that capacity until 1937 when W. E. Page Sr.,
6162-534: Was renamed Waterlow Road . Attitudes to Germany were not entirely negative among British troops fighting on the Western Front; the British writer Nicholas Shakespeare quotes this statement from a letter written by his grandfather during the First World War in which he says he would rather fight the French and describes German bravery: Personally, my opinion is that our fellows get on much best [sic] with
6241-762: Was renamed to the euphemistic " Alsatian "; the English Kennel Club only re-authorised the use of 'German Shepherd' as an official name in 1977. The German biscuit was renamed the Empire biscuit . Several streets in London which had been named after places in Germany or notable Germans had their names changed. For instance, Berlin Road in Catford was renamed Canadian Avenue , and Bismarck Road in Islington
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