 In the mold of most yellow journalists of his time, Creelman was as much an advocate as a reporter — in her book "The Yellow Kids", author Joyce Milton describes Creelman as the self-described "conscience of the fourth estate," who "normally did as much talking as listening" during interviews, including once lecturing Pope Leo XIII on relations between Protestants and Catholics .Creelman, generally considered one of the premier reporters of his day, also had a bit of an ego — Hearst once said of Creelman