They lied about The Maine
They lied about Germans bayoneting Belgian Children
They lied about the Gulf of Tonkin
They lied about the Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo
Don’t forget babies thrown out of incubators. Can’t question that sworn testimony.
Not quite. The Maine’s explosion and sinking is a mystery to this day, but is doubtful Spain caused it. Most evidence points to a coal explosion or magazines exploding. It didn’t really cause the Spanish-American War. The American public was already angry at Spain and sympathetic to the Cuban cause before the Maine. The “yellow journalism” of the day played little role also as those publications were relatively few and had little readership. Few in the nation read them. Spain’s treatment of Cubans was horrible, regardless of sensational stories and the American public already supported intervention.
The Gulf of Tonkin situation was not a total lie. There was one attack by N. Vietnamese fast boats. The second “attack” is the suspect one. However, there was a lot of confusion about the facts. It is a legitimate criticism that our ships were there already, but it was clear that N. Vietnam was wanting to annex and conquer S. Vietnam. It was yet another aggressive Communist expansion into a non-Communist area. For the first few years, the American public supported the nation’s war effort. It was a conundrum and no one could know the catastrophe that would unfold later.
Unfair inacurrate half-truths are just as bad as yellow journalism.
they also lied about the Kuwaiti incubator babies