Edith Cavell, a 49 Year Old British Nurse is Executed in Order for the Bankers to Extend WWI
On Oct 12, 1915, Edith Cavell, 50, a British nurse and head of a teaching hospital in Belgium, was shot by a German firing squad. …
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Yellow Journalism Cartoon by Leon Barritt, first published in “Vim”
Today, William Randolph Hearst is widely known for his rivalry with Joseph Pulitzer and his extreme yellow journalism. Pulitzer’s newspaper, the New York World, was already well …
Puck Magazine Prints Illustration Depicting Yellow Journalism / Fake News
Print shows a newspaper owner, possibly meant to be Joseph Pulitzer, sitting in a chair in his office next to an open safe where “Profits” …
MO Sen. George Graham Vest: “History is written by the victors…”
Late in the new movie The Report, Adam Driver’s Dan Jones argues with his prospective defense attorney over who really said, “History is written by the …
John Swinton, NY Times Chief Editor Speech: “The Business of Journalists is to Destroy the Truth…We Are Tools… of Rich Men Behind the Scenes.”
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. …
The Great Moon Hoax: The NY Sun Begins Publishing Fake News Articles About Lunar Creatures
The Great Moon Hoax, as it has become known, was published in the New York Sun over several days in the summer of 1835. It claimed to …
The 1828 US Presidential Election
The United States in the 19th century saw major changes take hold on the political, social, industrial, and electoral level. In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment …
Thomas Jefferson: “I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.”
Thomas Jefferson said the following in a Letter to John Adams, dated January 21, 1812: “I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and …
Thomas Jefferson: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Thomas Jefferson in a Letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes …