I was cruising through Zerohedge headlines and this one popped out at me. I thought "Now, that is interesting" and then I found myself thinking of Thomas Paine and "Common Sense". It may have gone back further than 1898 but I haven't done a study that would make me say it is the number one cause. In the environment of today I think you can definitely make a pretty good argument that it is the number one cause.
The Media Is The Number One Cause Of War Since 1898
I thought the message in this article was thought provoking enough that I wanted to share it here. I will not have much more to say on it here. I am still letting the idea bounce around in my head.
Replies and comments are welcome. I might be inspired to respond to some of those.
In 1895, a 32-year old entrepreneur in New York City bought a failing newspaper and hatched a bold plan to turn it around.
The newspaper industry was cutthroat, especially in New York. There were at least 16 other daily newspapers in circulation, and there was fierce competition for readers’ attention.
But the young entrepreneur had an idea: thrill readers with tales of death, destruction, and brutality in the Cuban War for Independence against Spain.
Cuba was a Spanish colony at the time, but revolutionary forces had been fighting for independence for several years. Few people in the US really cared about Cuba. But the new publisher vowed to make them care.
His name was William Randolph Hearst. And his paper, the New York Morning Journal, constantly thrust Cuba in his readers’ faces.
Their stories were full-blown sensationalism. By early 1898, Hearst’s Journal was printing outright fabrications of atrocities committed by Spanish troops in Cuba, in an effort to whip up public support for the United States to join the war.
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The media is the mega propaganda machine used to depopulate the world. Welcome to evil!
All wars are bankster wars.
And those banksters own all the major media companies.
Further, every war has had a false flag to get us into it.
About the You-Crane war... errr police action
If the media was telling us the truth, everyone would be "go Putin!"
but no, all we see is lies trying to show how bad Russia is being.
So much of the propaganda about how bad Russia is being is being debunked very quickly.
Seriously, people in besieged towns still have power and internet and making Them-Tube videos.
If the Russians were seriously harming civilians, it would have a blackout from hour one.
Where are all the news stories about how the SS in You-Crane have been killing Russians in East Ukraine for almost a decade now?
When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."