February 28, 2017

"Towards the close of the 19th century, William Randolph Hearst, who owned the New York Journal, and Joseph Pulitzer, who ran the New York World, engaged in a spitting contest of sensationalism often mixed with falsehoods to improve the sagging sales of their newspapers. 

Then, almost like a gift from heaven, a crisis in Cuba provided them a spotlight. Playing on Spanish officials’ human rights abuses, their untoward acts toward women, their insults aimed at the US and its citizens, and any incident at the time, the two media moguls, joined by other newspapers, enflamed public opinion in America against Spain. "

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