The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst by Whyte Kenneth

Author:Whyte, Kenneth [Whyte, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781582439853
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2009-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Halstead soon learned that the Inglaterra stood in stark relief to much of its surroundings. Havana was a squalid city with crumbling infrastructure and a dispirited, frightened population. At all hours, the streets and cafés were awash in rumor, and there was no such thing as a dependable source of information. The local population, accustomed to an atmosphere of rebellion, was better trained in conspiracy than objectivity. “Nothing can be stated too wild to find believers,” wrote Halstead, “and exaggerations are heaped upon each other until the truth is lost even in outline. . . . ‘Perfectly trustworthy’ correspondence by secret lines of communication arrives stating highly important matters altogether imaginary.” The rebels, dependent on the United States for fundraising and moral support, regaled American reporters in Havana with claims of glorious victories while insisting on the iniquities of the Spanish leadership “to the last detail of infamy.”18 The Spanish government was less fanciful than the rebels but it had blown its credibility at the outset by misleading the press about the extent of the rebellion: it would admit only to success in its efforts to defeat the insurrection, and it further contributed to the general confusion by restricting the movements of reporters and vigorously censoring dispatches from Havana. Though no stranger to war zones, Halstead found the overall volume of distortion on the Cuba story bewildering. That falsehood was finding its way into print, in his view, was due more to unreliable sources than to dishonest or incompetent reporters.19

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