As America moves into global expansion in the hopes of becoming a global power, journalism follows suet. The Spanish -American War was one of the least noted of the many wars that was waged but it had an effect on the people, well to me it sparked an idea to use the voice that journalism has to lead people like sheep. Journalism’s voice is meant for the people but that voice can just as easily be used to lead them astray. In order for America to expand it needed its people to support it, and journalism was used as its way to do this. The drawing by Frederic Remington of women being forced to submit to strip searches, this simple picture and a few other indents like the sinking of the U.S.S Maine by a suppose Spanish mine and the $50,000 for the person responsible for the sinking. With the outraged public the United States government responded the only way they knew and wanted to respond with war. The saying “history repeats itself” was right September 11th 2001 was the most recent even that kind of tactic was used. With the pain of millions Americans calling for the heads of who, caused this event the government was given a “blank check” by the people this came about by posting in several papers what I like to call “who done it” posting. Eventually the Iraq war sparked and still to this day we still are fighting the war eight years later.
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