Posted on 02/06/2017 6:41:47 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica
"Government by Journalism"
But neither Stead nor Hearst claimed "objectivity", not that I'm aware of.
In grade school I heard about how Yellow Journalism helped the Spanish-American War to erupt. I consider that the first instance of fake news.
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%80%93American_War
Men such as William Hearst, the owner of The New York Journal was involved in a circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and saw the conflict as a way to sell papers. Many newspapers ran articles of a sensationalist nature and sent correspondents to Cuba to cover the war. Correspondents had to evade Spanish Authorities; usually they were unable to get reliable news and relied heavily on informants for their stories. Many stories were derived from second or third hand accounts and were either elaborated, misrepresented or completely fabricated by journalists to enhance their dramatic effect.
Ted Turner
The Spanish-American War began after Spain was blamed for the sinking of the USS Maine. But the war was provoked by powerful U.S. newspapers and served the interests of big banks. By James Perloff
Spanish-American War: Trial Run for Interventionism
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/12338-trial-run-for-interventionism
"They(journalists) decide what their readers shall know, or what they shall not know." (1886)
Much food for thought here. Thanks.
When Americans see the bizarre responses of the mainstream media and the progressive politicians to tragedies such as the Tucson shootings — for instance, the proposal to ban rhetoric or symbols perceived to be violent — many wonder how the country has come to this strange place where elitists are moving to gain control at the expense of individual liberties. Perhaps one need not look past the Woodrow Wilson administration for the answer.
Today’s politicians and progressives seem to have taken some notes right out of the works of Edward Bernays, President Wilson’s propaganda master. The author of books such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) — both of which were heavily utilized by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels — Bernays has been credited with manipulating public opinion about such varied subjects as World War I, smoking, and even bacon. He has been dubbed the “Father of Spin” and the “Godfather of modern public relations” because of his extraordinary ability to alter public opinion.
Hearst learned everything he knew from Stead. That includes his manipulations that led to the Spanish American War.
Walter Cronkite.
I read a letter from a Confederate Soldier to his wife. This would have been around 1863.
He mentioned to her that he had read a Richmond newspaper and they were giving credit to Virginia troops for winning some unknown skirmish.
He said in fact it was the Florida companies which had won the battle.
I think Alexander the great took reporters along with him to send news back to Macedonia and Greece. Don’t know if they made stuff up tho.
Bernays is a very interesting man. He did start out as a journalist at university. But by the time he started doing his freedom torches and other campaigns, he wasn’t in the news field anymore.
That’s why he’s regarded as the father of public relations, that was his field.
Wouldn’t that make Bernays the grandfather of Alinsky community organizing?
I bet they did. There is nothing new under the sun. We are not smarter, nor dumber than the people that stumbled out of the garden of Eden.
Fake News was alive and well in the eighteenth century.
Walter Cronkite or the teamsters union?
The New York “there is no starvation in the Ukraine” Times?
There was that time when Cain(?) dressed up in animal fur to trick his dad into giving him the birthright from his brother Able. I’m guessing it was news to the dad when he found out.
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