Montana's history gives insight into controlling the narrative by controlling the press • Daily Montanan

Montana's history gives insight into controlling the narrative by controlling the press • Daily Montanan

The front page of the Butte Miner on July 13, 1904, announcing the marriage of copper king William Andrews Clark and Anna LaChappelle. The announcement also noted their daughter, Audree, who later died of meningitis. The marriage rocked Butte and was scandalous because Clark was nearly 30 years older, and had alleged that they'd been married since 1901. Montana knows as well as any state in the union what it looks like when millionaires decide t…