It was probably William Randolph Hearst – the newspaper mogul – who first popularized yellow journalism in the Americas to spark off war hysteria. In the 1890s he sent the artist Frederick Remington to Cuba to illustrate articles on an alleged revolt against the Spanish rule. Remington and his fellow journalists searched for signs of revolt but could not find any. He wrote to Hearst, “There is no war,” and requested to be called back. Hearst sent him a cable that read, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.” The rest is history! Soon the Spanish-American war was to break out in which America discovered herself as an imperial power and conquered Cuba and Puerto Rico.

One wonders, where did Miller learn the art of journalism? Unfortunately, it is not Miller alone who could take the full credit for Yellow Journalism. As Michael Massing in his 7,000-word analysis in the New York Review of Books "Now They Tell Us," (Feb. 26, 2004) noted, “In the period before the war, US journalists were far too reliant on sources sympathetic to the administration. Those with dissenting views—and there were more than a few—were shut out. Reflecting this, the coverage was highly deferential to the White House. This was especially apparent on the issue of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction—the heart of the President's case for war. Despite abundant evidence of the administration's brazen misuse of intelligence in this matter, the press repeatedly let officials get away with it.”

Writing for al-Jazeera, he calls her a "Yellow Journalist."

I had not appreciated the perfect fit as applied to Miller until reading this from Dr. Habib Siddiqui's article.

And anyone who starts to believe al-Jazeera does need help.