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Originally Posted by kerry
Well, it's not nothing, it's what he was before Hearst got involved. Since others were in the same profession and didn't get Hearst's help and continued doing the same thing, I don't see any reason to think that Graham would have turned out any differently apart from the national media attention. Do you?
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I think that Hearst helped. Graham worked hard at what he did. His failure in Baltimore in 1949 nearly mad him quitting.
The evangelistic crusades were a product of their time. They needed the mass media to get out the word, but had to be pre TV. I think as much as anything, Graham was the right man at the right time. I don't see anyone able to make that vehicle work in today's culture--at least in the USA. It might work in China, for the right person, provided the government didn't kill it.