"Could Exact Millions"
"Spain, with her great marine fighting machine stationed in a New York harbor, will have it within her power to lay waste to the metropolis of America, and without a single competent vessel to oppose her."
This is taken from the New York Journal from February 17th, 1898. It reminds me of "weapons of mass destruction" and the government creating a fear of Iraq in order to accomplish agendas.
To illustrate what Spain's vessel, the Vizcaya, is capable of doing to New York creates not only fear among Americans, but consent for the government to do what is necessary to protect them from such a fate as a warship attacking New York City or a tyrannical dictator with nuclear and chemical weapons.
This is taken from the New York Journal from February 17th, 1898. It reminds me of "weapons of mass destruction" and the government creating a fear of Iraq in order to accomplish agendas.
To illustrate what Spain's vessel, the Vizcaya, is capable of doing to New York creates not only fear among Americans, but consent for the government to do what is necessary to protect them from such a fate as a warship attacking New York City or a tyrannical dictator with nuclear and chemical weapons.
posted by Anonymous at 3:35 PM
2 Comments:
An apt comparison. What motivated the paper to print this cartoon? Was the Journal acting on its own? How could the sensation of this fear serve the interests of the paper?
I agree. They didn't just embellish the truth they made it up entirely. There was no threat to New York City from the Vizcaya. It was senstational fear-mongering pure and simple. And as you say, sensationalism sells papers.
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