Remember The Maine?
May, 2006
How Governments Manufacture OutrageWhen William Randolph Hearst, owner of the New York Journal, sent Frederic Remington to Cuba in 1897 to illustrate Spanish atrocities and drum up support for a U.S. war with Spain, the artist found little to draw. "Everything is quiet," he telegraphed back to New York. "There is no trouble here. There will be no war." To which Hearst reportedly responded, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Hearst came through on h...
