“You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.”

— William Randolph Hearst

Alleged cable to illustrator Frederic Remington while Hearst was covering the Cuban War of Independence (1898). Campbell, W. Joseph (Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C.) questions the sources of the alleged quote in both his books Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies (2003), p. 72 and Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism (2016), also in a respective blog entry https://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/furnish-the-war-media-myth-infiltrates-npr-tribute-to-evelyn-waughs-scoop/.

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