The journalists are like this....

There is a funny story in the history of journalism about the use of journalism to deceive or persuade the public.

Joseph Pulitzer was an American journalist. The newspaper he worked for was the "New York Journal". Its editor was a journalist named William Hertz. William Hertz once sent his reporter Remington to Spain.

Remington's responsibility was to provide the newspaper with photographs and reports of the atrocities and horrors of the upcoming war in Spain. However, Remington, who went to Spain, did not see any war conditions there. He sent the following message to the editor Hertz.

William Hertz,

Editor,

The New York Journal.

Sir;

There is no trouble or trouble in this country. Everything is calm. There is no sign of war. Please return.

Remilgton

William Hertz, who received this message, sent this reply to his correspondent Remilgton

⁣Dear Remilgton,

Please stop. You provide me with photographs. I will provide the war.

Hertz

No one knows the truth or falsehood of this incident. However, the public opinion that William Hertz had built was that Spain was a threat to American independence. War soon broke out. Many believed that the war between Spain and America was the result of the public opinion that William Hertz had managed through his newspaper.

The Spanish-American War of 1898 was a brief four-month conflict that was sparked by the Cuban War of Independence, the sinking of the battleship USS Maine, and American intervention. The war ended with the signing of the [Treaty of Paris]

(It's still the same today...nothing has changed😀 )

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