1855 United States Tycoon

When Ding Ding made reports, he always had a principle, that is, if the basic facts are true. However, the fact is like an elephant, and the person reporting the fact is like a blind man touching the elephant. As for the audience of the report, they are just blind people who don't even have the opportunity to reach out and touch the elephant. What does an elephant look like, like a snake, or a wall, or a big pillar, or a small rope, they can only listen to the reports of the guys in the media.

Just like a blind person touching an elephant, the same elephant, different blind people, touch it from different angles, and the results are completely different. The same fact is reported by different people, and the results reported will be completely different.

For example, the incident reported by Tintin was not only seen by all United States, but also quoted by many European newspapers. Finally, the Spaniard had to come out to clarify the report. According to the Spaniards, that boat was not a fishing boat at all, but an out-and-out smuggling boat.

According to the Spanish, the ship was discovered by a Spanish warship while smuggling small artillery pieces used in terrorist attacks and extremely inhumane white phosphorous shells to Cuban insurgents. The Spanish warship asked them to stop the ship for inspection, but they refused to stop the ship and shot at the Spanish warship. The Spanish warship had to fire back. The shell hit the machine compartment of the smuggler. The smuggler lost its power and stopped. But the desperadoes on the ship continued to resist while throwing the smuggled goods into the sea. The loyal Spanish navy boarded the smuggling ship after the battle. At that time, the smugglers on board had been killed. The smuggling ship was seriously damaged and had begun to enter the water. After the navy confiscated the remaining smuggled goods, it left the smuggling ship. The ship sank by itself soon. As for the claim that the Spanish navy snatched bluefin tuna, it is a slander on the Spanish navy. And an obvious fact is that around this period of time, there were no bluefin tuna on the Cuban market. Don’t the navy guys know that if the fish is not fresh, its value will be greatly reduced? Or they didn’t know how expensive this thing was, and they ate these valuable things themselves?

However, the Spaniards obviously lack the experience of curse warfare. One of the experiences of cursing war is that no matter how strange your statement is, you must be careful in the details and not leak too obvious loopholes. Because once a loophole is revealed in the details, the opponent will grasp the details and proceed from there to directly question your entire narration. For example, in the Spaniard's narrative, they may be in order to highlight the innocence of own, claiming that the United States smuggling ship first shot the Spanish cruiser. This detail was immediately caught by the United States guy. The "New York Sun" first opened the mocking mode:

"Does the Spanish government treat us all as fools? We have to have many weird heads to believe that a smuggler with only rifles dare to shoot at a cruiser? What is the purpose of their shooting? Sinking or wounding the cruiser so that they can’t catch up? Is the cruiser built in Spain that can be dealt with with a small weapon like a rifle? The Spanish government can slander the fishermen who were killed as smugglers, but please don’t slander them as Are you a fool? And, when the Spanish warships are about to use artillery to'return', does it make sense to throw away the cargo? Just shooting and attacking warships is enough to make the Spaniards hang them all for piracy. It's dead. The Spaniards dare to use such nonsense to deceive people. This is really unprofessional. Please remember the Spanish government in the future. Don't treat the audience as fools when you tell lies..."

But this is not actually the most critical thing, the most critical thing is how loud your voice is. Just like two women quarreling on the street, the decision to win is not entirely on who is more correct, and more importantly, who can make their own voice heard by more people. At least when both parties are temporarily powerless or have no intention of ascending the weapon of criticism as a weapon of criticism, the size of the voice is the most critical factor.

All kinds of news in America can only be transmitted back to Europe through the New York Tower. It is said that the British and Germans are already working hard on trial production of vacuum tubes, but they also have problems with vacuuming. As a result, even though the vacuum tubes they barely made, there is still a significant gap in performance with McDonald's vacuum tubes. Coupled with the limitation of patents, these things are not a problem when used in our own army, but there are too many problems when used in the commercial market.

As for Spain, in terms of industrial technology, they have long been behind the times. Therefore, such a tall thing is not something the Spaniard can do. As a result, reports of the Spaniards and United States people’s babble still had to use the United States radio station. This is equivalent to borrowing the voice of others when arguing. How can this be a victory?

And this quarrel, compared to the last time, United States has a greater advantage. First of all, the last time I scolded the Spaniards was only the media owned by Scrooge's family, and this time, the entire United States was mobilized. As a result, all kinds of old sesame and rotten grains of the Spaniards were dug up and displayed in various newspapers.

And in this era, which colonial country does not have a tail to pull on its ass? The bad things of the Spaniards are even more numerous. Whether in Asia or America, the Spaniards started the massacre, and it was no worse than the German three or the Japanese imperial army. It's just that in normal times, civilized countries will not mention these things, because everyone has done a lot of such things, and Dage doesn't talk about the second brother. But now, the situation is different, because although United States has a lot of bad things, Spain’s voice is small, um, because of its close relationship with France, and because now Scrooge’s hand has reached into France, plus Nowadays, the economic situation is not very good, so it is much simpler to buy media. As a result, most of the media in France now also stand on the side of United States and scold the Spanish together. Few people could hear the Spaniard's voice, no matter how he shouted.

This is like in later generations, helping others to enjoy the bald eagle, and every year a "white paper" is published. It does not say that harmless white rabbits are torturing prisoners, or that the faithful and reliable Teddy Bear is engaged in telephone wiretapping. Although in terms of torturing prisoners and tapping telephones, if the bald eagle recognizes the second child, no one dares to recognize the boss. Moreover, the harmless white rabbits of humans and animals also draw out a "White Paper on the Human Rights of Thieves Eagles" every year according to Calabash's paintings. The contents are full. It’s full of black accounts of helping others, bald eagle torture, eavesdropping, and the police killing people casually, but the little white rabbit’s voice is too small, and he yells, and few people in the world hear it, even if he listens. When it's there, consider that the bald eagle has always been a good character for helping others, and Amei, who has beaten the world's invincible hand, will only pretend not to hear when you look at Shenquan.

In short, in this louder contest, the Spaniard is no opponent at all. The effect of the propaganda offensive has also begun to show. According to a poll conducted by the Associated Press, close to 80% of United States citizens have no favorable impression of Spain, and among Hispanic United States, this proportion is as high as 100. Ninety-eight or more. This is actually not surprising, because in this era, people who will leave Spain and immigrate to America, but are not going to Spanish-controlled colonies, have a very difficult life in Spain. Of course, they have no good impression of the Spanish, even Not only did Yu not have a good impression, he even hated Spain more than immigrants from any other place. But in another poll, the situation is a bit different.

This investigation is about whether there should be a fight with Spain. Although people in the United States generally do not have a good impression of Spain, on this issue, the number of people who support a war with Spain is less than 50%. Even the Hispanic United States, who hates Spain most, support just over two-thirds of the war against Spain.

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"It seems that our propaganda needs to be improved." Scrooge said to Morgan. "We have always promoted the cruelty of the Spaniards. This certainly makes the people of United States hate Spain. However, it is okay to hate a cruel guy, but To hate him does not mean that you want to fight him. In a sense, people will even avoid conflict with such a guy."

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

"That's it!" Scrooge shook his head and said, "So, we must change the way of propaganda. We must not only make the people of United States hate the Spanish, but also make them despise the Spanish. To do this, also It's not that there is no way, we can..."

Scrooge remembered the Cold War in later generations. In the Cold War, the United States faced a loyal and reliable Teddy Bear whose military power was enough to destroy the entire human civilization several times. Although everyone did not dare to actually do it under the mouse, they were preparing for the world war. They are all very serious. Because if anyone does not prepare seriously, I am afraid that the Cold War will really turn into a hot war. The propaganda at this time is also the same. The propaganda at this time must also make the domestic people willing to really go to war with the fluffy bear holding a nuclear bomb, otherwise, the people's willingness to fight will become a major weakness that can be exploited by opponents.

Therefore, the United States propaganda of that era promoted Teddy Bear as an "evil empire" and a big bad guy with all evils, and at the same time promoted them in various ways at the same time that they were seemingly powerful, but in fact vulnerable, big fools, big idiots. . For example, in that era, there was a famous movie called "Red Dawn". The army of bears there was killing people and doing no evil, but at the same time stupid and clumsy, it was finally wiped out by a few young people who dared to resist. Another example is the video game "Red Alert" at that time. The opening animation and related plots include content such as the slaughter of peaceful residents by the bear army and the use of brain control technology to allow peaceful residents to carry out suicide charges.

Of course, while promoting the ferocity of the bear, we must also promote the clumsiness of the bear. Therefore, in the United States movies, the bear army has always been on the surface aggressive, but it is really vulnerable. For example, in the first blood series, Rambo alone killed at least one group of Teddy Bear. Although the movie has not yet been invented, the serial broadcasting of novels is quite mature. In addition, in that era, various political jokes about Mao Xiong were also popular, which greatly reduced the coercion of Mao Xiong. so……

"I think we should tell stories about Bolivar or San Martin on the radio and in the newspapers. The Spaniards should be portrayed as brutal, greedy, and too stupid. In addition, if possible, also We need to write more Spaniards' jokes so that they can become the laughing stock of the people.” Scrooge said.

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