That sort of extrapolation would have produced a harrumph from a beaverbrook or a hearst , but even the most cynical news baron could not dismiss the way that ever more young people are getting their news online .
" In the 20th century great newspaper empires were built by lords rothermere , northcliffe and beaverbrook in england , and l joseph pulitzer , w.r. hearst and e.w. scripps in the us . "
Rupert murdoch , the beaverbrook of our age , once described them as the industry 's rivers of gold-but , as he said last year , " sometimes rivers dry up . "
Like lord beaverbrook ( with whose granddaughter , jeanne campbell , luce had the last serious love affair of his life ) , he liked left-wing writers , among them archibald macleish , dwight macdonald and daniel bell , who despised his conservatism .