Titanic, Part II. "The almost lifeless survivors wore garments of woe."

In April of 1912 the Titanic catastrophe gripped the nation and tabloid journalists rushed to cash in. Sensational press reports in William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, then engaged in a head-to-head competition for readers, castigated cowards, vilified ship officials, lauded self-sacrificing heroes and heral…