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Originally Posted by Ledgem
Thanks for sharing.
That's a bit of an oversimplification about how the Spanish-American War started. More to the point, there weren't any lies that were told. Slanted articles, sure, but no outright fabrications.
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There were some pretty bad ones, In high school our teachers showed me two, one featured the drawing starving topless white girl (because black girls wouldn't garner sympathy), another had a "torpedo hole" even though later everyone knew the explosion came from inside out, not outside-in.
Hearst whipped the country into a frenzy.