You Furnish the Legend, I'll Furnish the Quote. (Free Press).(debunking anecdote on Spanish-American War coverage)(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  December, 2001  by Campbell, W. Joseph

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One hundred years ago this fall, a then-prominent journalist named James Creelman published a book of reminiscences called "On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special Correspondent." It was a self-congratulatory work replete with undocumented passages--one of which was to become perhaps the best-known anecdote in American journalism.

The anecdote was about artist Frederic Remington and his assignment to Cuba for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. Remington and Richard Harding Davis went to Cuba in January 1897 to cover the uprising against ...

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