When Tintin was reporting, he always had a principle, that is, the basic facts must be true. However, the facts are like an elephant, and the person who reports them is like a blind man who touches the elephant. As for the audience of the report, it is nothing more than a blind man who does not even have the opportunity to reach out and touch the elephant. What the elephant looks like, whether it looks like a snake, or a wall, or a big pillar, or a small rope, they can only listen to the guys in the media.

Just like a blind man touching an elephant, the same elephant, different blind people, from different angles, get completely different results. The same fact, different people to report, the results of the report are completely different.

For example, the incident reported by Tintin has not only been seen in the United States, but has even been cited by many European newspapers. In the end, the Spaniards had to come out and clarify the report. According to the Spaniards, the boat was not a fishing boat at all, but a smuggling boat in the truest sense of the word.

According to the Spaniards, the ship was discovered by Spanish warships while smuggling small artillery pieces for terrorist attacks, as well as extremely inhumane white phosphorus shells, to Cuban rebels. The Spanish warship demanded that they stop for inspection, but they refused to stop and opened fire on the Spanish warship. The Spanish warship had to fire back, and the shells hit the smuggling ship's cabin, and the smuggling ship lost power, and then stopped. But the ship's outlaws continued to resist while throwing the smuggled goods into the sea. The loyal Spanish navy boarded the smuggling ship after the battle, and the smugglers on board had already been killed, and the smuggling ship was damaged and had already begun to enter the water. After confiscating the remaining smuggled goods, the Navy left the smuggling ship. The ship soon sank on its own. As for the claim that the Spanish Navy snatched bluefin tuna, it is completely defamatory to the Spanish Navy. And it is an obvious fact that around this time, there were no bluefin tuna sold on the Cuban market at all. Don't the Navy guys know that if the fish is not fresh, its value will be greatly reduced? Or did they not know how expensive it was, and they ate it themselves?

However, the Spaniards clearly lacked experience in scolding wars. One of the lessons of the scolding war is that no matter how bizarre your statement is, you must be careful in the details and not leak too obvious loopholes. Because once a hole is revealed in the detail, the opponent will seize on the detail and directly question your entire narrative from there. For example, in the Spanish narrative, perhaps to highlight their innocence, they claim that it was an American smuggling ship that fired first at the Spanish cruiser. This detail was immediately seized on by the Yankees. The New York Sun first turned on the taunt mode:

"Is the Spanish government taking all of us for fools? We have to have a strange head to believe that a smuggling ship with only rifles dares to shoot at a cruiser? What was the purpose of their shooting? Do you want to sink or damage the cruiser so that they can't catch up? Could it be that the Spanish built cruisers could be dealt with with small arms such as rifles? The Spanish government can smear the fishermen who were killed as smugglers, but please don't smear them as fools, okay? Moreover, when the time has come for the Spanish warships to 'return fire' with artillery, does it still make sense to throw away the cargo? The mere charge of shooting and attacking a warship was enough for the Spaniards to hang them all for piracy. The Spaniards even dare to come up with such nonsense to deceive people, which is really unprofessional. Please remember that the Spanish government should not take the audience for fools when telling lies......"

But that's not really the most critical thing, the most critical thing is how loud your voice is. It's like two women arguing on the street, and it's not all about who is more right, but more importantly, who can make their voice heard by more people. At least when both sides are temporarily unable or unwilling to elevate the weapon of criticism to a weapon of criticism, the size of the voice is the most critical factor.

News in the Americas can now only reach Europe through the Tower of New York. It is said that both the British and the Germans were already working hard to prototype vacuum tubes, but they also had problems with vacuuming. Even if they barely built a vacuum tube, there was still a significant gap in performance with MacDonald's vacuum tube. Coupled with the restrictions of patents, it is not a problem for these things to be used in their own army, but there are too many problems when they are used in the commercial market.

As for Spain, in terms of industrial technology, they have long been behind the times. So such a tall thing is not something that the Spaniards can do at all. As a result, the Spaniards and Americans still had to use American radio stations to report on the war of words. This is equivalent to borrowing other people's voices when quarreling, how can this be victorious?

Moreover, this quarrel, compared with the last time, the United States has a greater advantage. First of all, it was only the Scrooge media that had been against the Spaniards last time, and this time, the whole of America was mobilized. So all kinds of things about the Spaniards were dug up and displayed in various newspapers.

And in this era, what colonial country does not have a tail on its ass that can be wagged? The Spaniards are even more terrible. Whether in Asia or in the Americas, the Spaniards carried out massacres, which were no worse than the later German San or the Japanese Imperial Army. It's just that in general, civilized countries don't mention these things, because everyone has done a lot of such things, and everyone doesn't talk about the second brother. But now, the situation is different, because although there are a lot of stinky things in the United States, Spain has a small voice, well, because of the close relationship with France, and because now Scrooge's hand has reached into France, and now the economic situation is not very good, so it is much easier to buy the media or something, and the result is that most of the French media are now also on the side of the United States and scold the Spaniards together. No matter how much the Spaniards shouted, few people could hear it.

This is like in the later generations, the bald eagle who helps others will publish a "white paper" every year, in which it is not said that the white rabbit is harmless to humans and animals abusing prisoners, or that the faithful and reliable hairy bear is engaged in telephone tapping. Although it is said that when it comes to abusing prisoners and tapping the phone, the bald eagle recognizes the second child, no one dares to recognize the boss, and the little white rabbit is harmless to humans and animals, and the little white rabbit also makes a "white paper on the human rights of the thief eagle" every year, which is full of black accounts of the bald eagle abusing prisoners, eavesdropping, and the police casually beating people to death, but the little white rabbit's voice is too small, shouting and shouting, few people in the world hear it, even if it is heard, consider the good quality of the bald eagle has always been helpful and happy, and Ah Mei, who is invincible all over the world, you can only pretend not to hear when you look at the divine fist.

In short, in this contest that is louder than the voice, the Spaniard is no match at all. The effects of the propaganda campaign are also beginning to be felt, according to a poll conducted by the Associated Press, nearly 80 percent of the American people have no favorable opinion of Spain, and among Hispanics, the proportion is as high as 98 percent. This is not surprising, because in this era, people who would leave Spain and immigrate to the Americas, but not to the colonies controlled by Spain, had a very difficult life in Spain, and of course they did not have a good impression of the Spaniards, and not only did they not have a good impression, but they even hated Spain more than immigrants from any other place. In another poll, though, the picture is a little different.

The investigation was about whether or not there should be a war with Spain. Although the common people of the United States generally do not have a good impression of Spain, the number of people who support war with Spain on this issue is not even 50 percent. Even the most bitter Spanish-hating Hispanic Americans support war against Spain by just over two-thirds.

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"It looks like our propaganda needs to be changed. Come in. Scrooge told Morgan, "We used to promote the murderous nature of the Spaniards, which certainly made the American people hate Spain." However, it is okay to hate a murderous guy, but hating him does not mean that you want to fight him. In a sense, people will even avoid clashes with such guys. ”

"Yes, if you want to say that the most hated thing in the world, it must be the United Kingdom. But who would dare to take the initiative to go to war with the British now? Morgan replied.

"That's it!" Scrooge shook his head and said, "So, we have to change the way of propaganda, and we want to make the American people not only hate the Spaniards, but also make them despise the Spaniards." To do this, it is not impossible for us to ......"

Scrooge remembered the Cold War of later generations. In the Cold War, the United States faced a loyal and reliable woolly bear with military strength sufficient to destroy the entire human civilization several times, and although no one dared to really do anything under the trap, both sides were quite serious when preparing for a world war. Because if anyone is not prepared seriously, they are afraid that the cold war will really turn into a hot war. The propaganda at this time is the same, and the propaganda at this time must also make the people in the country willing to really go to war with the woolly bear with the nuclear bomb in hand, otherwise, the people's willingness to fight will become a big weakness that can be exploited by the opponent.

Therefore, the American propaganda of that era, on the one hand, promoted that the hairy bears were an "evil empire" and a big bad guy who did all kinds of evil, and on the other hand, it used various ways to promote at the same time that they were big fools and big fools who looked powerful, but were actually vulnerable. For example, there was a famous movie called "Red Dawn" in that era, where the woolly bear army killed people like hemp and did all kinds of evil, but at the same time they were stupid and clumsy, and were finally wiped out by a few young people who dared to resist. For example, the video game "Red Alert" at that time added content such as the slaughter of peaceful residents by the woolly bear army in the opening animation and related plots, and the use of brain control technology to make peaceful residents suicidal charge.

Of course, while promoting the ferocity of the hairy bear, it is also necessary to promote the clumsiness of the hairy bear, so in American movies, the hairy bear army has always been menacing on the surface, and it is really fought, but it is vulnerable. For example, in the first blood series, Rambo killed at least one group of woolly bears before and after. Although the movie has not yet been invented, the continuous broadcast of novels is quite mature. In addition, in that era, there were also various political jokes about hairy bears, which also greatly reduced the coercion of hairy bears. So......

"I think we should tell some stories about Bolívar or San Martín on the radio, in the newspapers. The Spaniards are to be portrayed as ferocious, greedy, and stupid. Also, if possible, write more Spanish jokes to make them the laughing stock of the populace. Scrooge said.