Friday, June 11, 2010

This is an article in the New York Journal, run by William Randolph Hearst, that tells about how Richard Harding Davis and Frederic Remington will be covering the war between Spain and Cuba in Cuba.

It's interesting to look at this now, because we later learn that Remington left after a week long stay in Cuba because he couldn't find action to write about.  Davis, while searching for a good story, implied that two Cuban women on a U.S. ship were strip searched by MALE Spanish officers.  While the initial story shocked America and caused a massive boost in newspaper sales, the Cuban women were later interviewed and it was proved that the officers were female and the women were not violated.

Davis, along with other reporters of his time, used sensationalism in their writing to make a boring story seem far more intriguing and interesting.

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