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Margaret Sullivan

Struggling in politics? Consider a war – the media will help

Karoline Leavitt briefs White House media
‘The strikes – from the lead-up to the aftermath – sucked up all the oxygen in the media universe for many days.’ Photograph: Mehmet Eser/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

“You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war,” was the storied response of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to Frederic Remington after the illustrator was sent to Cuba to cover an insurrection and cabled back to the boss that there was little going on.

Much has changed since that famous (if true) exchange of the late 19th century, in the heyday of sensationalism known as yellow journalism.

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