‘Yellow journalism’ wins again
Yet history has shown the US will use any method and tell any lies to advance its position in global affairs.
In 1898 the US administration used the pretext of the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine to declare war on Spain. The US public were baying for war due to the spread of lies that Spanish forces were raping women in Cuba and news exacerbated by the “yellow journalism” and the famous quip at the time by William–Randolph Hearst that “you furnace the pictures and I will furnace the war”. Some years later it was disclosed that the USS Maine sank due to a fire in its coal bunker, but that was soon forgotten about.