Word: jingoism
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...blatant jingoism of your call to invade Cuba is shocking. You should at least indicate the many reasons why this would be an "ugly choice." In fact, our current policy is doing very well; it makes it clear to Latin American countries just what the consequences of Communism are, and they are coming around to our point of view faster this way than if we made a stupid martyr out of Castro...
...York Herald covered the Spanish-American War far better than the papers of Hearst, whose jingoism touched it off. Its circulation swelled to more than half a million. But when Hearst forced Bennett to stop publishing a hugely profitable page of classified ads inserted by prostitutes (the columns were nicknamed "The Whores' Daily Guide & Compendium") the paper went into a decline. In 1920, the limping Herald (along with the Evening Telegram and the Paris Herald) was sold for $4,000,000. Bennett had been dead for less than two years...
...Britain's music-hall brag, aimed at Russia in 1878, added "jingoism'' to the English language and helped persuade the Czar to end his war against Turkey...
...result, writes Swanberg, was "the orgasmic acme of ruthless, truthless newspaper jingoism." Hearstmen in Cuba trumped up atrocity stories to The Chief's (and the public's) taste. Sent down to draw the look of battle, Artist Frederic Remington cabled his desire to return: EVERYTHING is QUIET. THERE is NO TROUBLE HERE. THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Hearst's infamous response: PLEASE REMAIN. YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES AND I'LL FURNISH THE WAR. Seizing upon the still-unexplained sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor as an excuse, Hearst whipped the U.S. into a chauvinistic...
...editor, Christiansen never bothered to question the Beaver's truculent jingoism-up the British Empire, down the League of Nations, the United Nations and most things American-that set Express policy: "I was a journalist, not a political animal," he says by way of explanation. "My approach to newspapers," Christiansen told a British television audience last year, "was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good Heavens,' when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy Smoke,' and by the time you got to the back page...