I'm reading a novel and the lead character in conversation says, "William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer had their correspondents invent sensational, fictional stories about atrocities in Cuba, which eventually provoked the United States into going to war with Spain. Because Hearst and Pulitzer had their own war going on—over circulation. They did it to sell newspapers.” And I thought, that can't be true - false flags in the 19th Century. But it is! http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3160