Journalism in War Stricken Locations

When the war broke out, the world media gathered on the battlefield. The greater the battle, the bigger the result of the battle, the bigger the main force, the more media will be. Reporter Kate Adie (2002) said that "the essence of war" is "confounding the role of journalists" (2002). To believe that journalists can sustain faraway or unaffected events, often in the face of the horrific conflict of reality, "rushes out of the window often."

Spain - the American war is often called the first "media war". In the 1890s, sensationalism and even the creation of sometimes even dramatic events was a powerful force to promote the war between America and Spain. Guided by the newspaper owner William Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer, the newspaper of the 1890's used melodrama, romanticism and exaggerated ways to sell millions of newspapers - known as this style yellow news It is. When Maine sank into Havana, Hurst soared and announced a story that blamed the Spaniards for the tragedy. There is no evidence that he is involved - but this story still influences public opposition against the Spaniards. According to PBS reports, 'American public opinion immediately requested intervention' These newspapers make Spanish images inhumane, publish erroneous pictures and stories, and abuse Spanish abusive and dangerous Said.

From the 1890s to the 1910s, this was a turbulent era of American journalism. William Hurst and Joseph Puritzer were in a violently cycling war, and it put the United States into the Spanish-American war. However, the strong wave of journalism is not far. Indeed, Bellingham is a scene of his own circulating war. These two papers are not very competitive in community service. Regional economic prosperity confirms that both documents are prosperous. However, a good time has not continued, and every paper of Whatcom feels it. By the beginning of 1891, the economy of Fair Haven began to collapse, and the Fair Haven newspaper received most of the financial blow. Due to this recession, Fair Haven Herald could buy some small newspapers in the area better than other newspapers.

The concept of war spread mainly with the rapid development of journalism in the 1890s and journalists used the concept of war and the Spanish problem as sources of information, articles, cartoons to sell more papers. A new epidemic in this industry not only encourages them to encourage war with melodrama, exaggerated, exciting yellow news, and the idea of ​​attracting readers, but also informing them of issues related to them continue. When I heard about the suffering caused by Spain, Americans caught up with the idea of ​​developing world dominance, started using war with actions to make it easy to win.