Citizen Kane

Why hasn't the <i>Inquirer</i> a three-column headline? 526 00:36:24,502 --> 00:36:26,003 - The news wasn't big enough. - Mm-hm. 527 00:36:26,087 --> 00:36:30,717 Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough. 528 00:36:30,883 --> 00:36:33,510 - That's right! - The murder of Mrs. Harry Silverstone... 529 00:36:33,594 --> 00:36:35,763 There's no proof that she was murdered, or dead. 530 00:36:35,847 --> 00:36:38,724 It says she's missing. The neighbors are getting suspicious. 531 00:36:38,808 --> 00:36:41,608 It's not our function to report the gossip of housewives. 532 00:36:41,769 --> 00:36:45,981 If we were interested in that kind of thing, we could fill the paper twice over, daily. 533 00:36:46,065 --> 00:36:49,401 That's the kind of thing we are going to be interested in from now on. 534 00:36:49,485 --> 00:36:52,405 I want you to send your best man to see Mr. Silverstone. 535 00:36:52,572 --> 00:36:56,408 Have him tell Mr. Silverstone if he doesn't produce his wife, Mrs. Silverstone 536 00:36:56,492 --> 00:36:58,577 - the <i>Inquirer</i> will have him arrested. - Wha...? 537 00:36:58,661 --> 00:37:01,080 Tell Mr. Silverstone he's a detective from, uh... 538 00:37:01,247 --> 00:37:03,666 - Central Office. - The Central Office. 539 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,463 If Mr. Silverstone gets suspicious and asks to see your man's badge 540 00:37:08,629 --> 00:37:12,425 your man is to get indignant and call Mr. Silverstone an anarchist. 541 00:37:12,675 --> 00:37:15,925 Loudly, so the neighbors can hear. You ready for dinner, Jedediah? 542 00:37:16,012 --> 00:37:19,182 I can't see that the function of a respectable newspaper... 543 00:37:19,348 --> 00:37:22,477 Thank you so much, Mr. Carter. Goodbye. 544 00:37:23,060 --> 00:37:24,312 Goodbye. 545 00:37:25,021 --> 00:37:27,857 Paper! Read all about it! 546 00:37:28,107 --> 00:37:30,985 Read all about it in the early morning <i>Chronicle.</i> 547 00:37:31,152 --> 00:37:33,602 The mystery of the lady that vanished in Brooklyn. 548 00:37:35,031 --> 00:37:38,701 Read all about it in the early morning <i>Chronicle.</i> 549 00:37:51,172 --> 00:37:54,759 We'll be on the street soon, Charlie, another 10 minutes. 550 00:37:54,926 --> 00:37:57,553 Three hours and 50 minutes late, but we did it. 551 00:37:57,720 --> 00:37:59,222 - Tired? - A tough day. 552 00:37:59,388 --> 00:38:00,932 - A wasted day. - Wasted? 553 00:38:01,098 --> 00:38:04,048 You only made the paper over four times tonight, that's all. 554 00:38:04,227 --> 00:38:07,688 I've changed the front page a little, Mr. Bernstein. That's not enough. 555 00:38:07,772 --> 00:38:11,984 There's something I've got to get into this paper besides pictures and print. 556 00:38:12,568 --> 00:38:15,696 I've got to make the <i>New York Inquirer</i> as important to New York 557 00:38:15,780 --> 00:38:17,657 as the gas in that light. 558 00:38:18,282 --> 00:38:20,034 What are you going to do, Charlie? 559 00:38:20,201 --> 00:38:24,330 My Declaration of Principles. Don't smile, Jedediah. 560 00:38:24,747 --> 00:38:27,250 I've got it all written out here. 561 00:38:27,750 --> 00:38:30,753 You don't want to make any promises you don't want to keep. 562 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,588 These'll be kept. 563 00:38:33,422 --> 00:38:35,925 "I'll provide the people of this city" 564 00:38:36,259 --> 00:38:39,846 with a daily paper that will tell all the news honestly. 565 00:38:41,097 --> 00:38:44,392 - I will also provide..." - That's two sentences starting with "I." 566 00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:47,061 People will know who's responsible, 567 00:38:47,228 --> 00:38:51,228 and they'll get the truth in the <i>Inquirer,</i> quickly, simply and entertainingly. 568 00:38:51,357 --> 00:38:54,610 No special interests will be allowed to interfere with that truth. 569 00:38:54,777 --> 00:38:58,697 "I will also provide them with a fighting and tireless champion of their rights 570 00:38:58,781 --> 00:39:01,367 as citizens and as human beings." 571 00:39:02,034 --> 00:39:03,327 Signed: 572 00:39:03,703 --> 00:39:06,289 "Charles Foster Kane." 573 00:39:08,249 --> 00:39:10,877 - Can I have that, Charlie? - I'm going to print it. 574 00:39:11,043 --> 00:39:12,461 Solly! 575 00:39:13,462 --> 00:39:14,463 Yes, Mr. Kane? 576 00:39:14,630 --> 00:39:17,508 I want you to run this editorial in a box on the front page. 577 00:39:17,592 --> 00:39:18,968 This morning's front page? 578 00:39:19,135 --> 00:39:22,138 That's right, Solly, that means we'll have to remake again. 579 00:39:22,305 --> 00:39:24,015 - Yes. - Go down and tell them. 580 00:39:24,181 --> 00:39:25,474 - All right. - Solly. 581 00:39:25,766 --> 00:39:29,478 When you're through with that, I'd like to have it back. 582 00:39:31,147 --> 00:39:34,400 I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myself. 583 00:39:34,567 --> 00:39:38,613 I have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty important. 584 00:39:38,863 --> 00:39:40,990 - A document... - Sure. 585 00:39:41,