It invented atrocity stories, manufactured interviews, published fake pictures, perverted real incidents. It conducted the most sustained campaign of jingoism in the history of its country. When a battleship was sunk it shrieked: 'War Sure.' By the time hostilities commenced in April the paper's streamer headlines were five and a half inches high. Headlines no longer told the news; they sold the news.

LRB 3 March 1983 | PDF Download