 Newspaper coverage of the trial, particularly by William Randolph Hearst's "Los Angeles Examiner", was antagonistic towards the Greek-accented Pantages, while portraying Pringle as the innocent victim.In countless stories in the "Examiner" from the moment the case broke in the newspaper on Saturday, August 10, 1929, until the end of the trial, Pantages was portrayed as variously alone, aloof, cold, emotionless, effete, and 'European,' while the American-born Pringle was portrayed as "the sweetest 17 since Clara Bow.