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Lecture Three
How the Media Shapes Events,
Case Study One:
The Spanish-American War
1898
Outline
I. Introduction
II. The Bare Bones of History
President William McKinley
Havana
USS Maine (sunk Feb. 15, 1898)
New York Journal
San Francisco Examiner
Commodore George Dewey
Admiral Pascual Cervera
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Santiago
III. William Randolph Hearst
Citizen Kane
IV. Reporting the War
1. The initial reaction to the destruction
of the Maine
Captain Charles Sigsbee
George Bronson Rea
New York World
Frederick Remington
Ernest May
Hugh Thomas
V. Conclusion