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W. Joseph Campbell, longtime newspaper and wire service journalist, examines the wellsprings of independent journalism in francophone West Africa, and challenges the gloomy assessments that typify many studies of the press in Africa.

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This work challenges conventional wisdom and punctures prominent myths about an important, but much-misunderstood, period in American journalism history - the yellow press period. It demonstrates that the yellow press did not foment the Spanish-American War in 1898.