An enabling environment: A reconsideration of the press and the spanish–American war
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Abstract
This study of the media's influence on the Spanish–American War revises the revisionists through quantitative research. In this, the first study to accept Caudill's challenge to reconstruct historical public opinion through agenda-setting research, we do not find the yellow press started the war—as has been previously theorized and disproved—but we do find that sensational and conservative newspapers together created an enabling environment for going to war. We hope this study puts journalists’ impact on that major historical event in better perspective and leads to more efforts to use a wide range of quantitative research tools to understand history. © 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Journalism Studies
First Page
78
Last Page
93
Recommended Citation
Hamilton, J., Coleman, R., Grable, B., & Cole, J. (2006). An enabling environment: A reconsideration of the press and the spanish–American war. Journalism Studies, 7 (1), 78-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616700500450368