Journalists' effect on history.

What projects have journalists destroyed? What good things have they done? Bonus points if you can get a single journo and a direct causal link. Negative points for bloody Watergate.

My favourite is Evan Green's article on the 1972 Bathurst Specials. When the story broke the govt threatened to cancel all Holden, Ford and Chrysler fleet orders if the 1972 'specials' went on sale, effectively killing off the most awesome cars Australia would have had.
 
The Spanish-American War, which took place in a large degree because the Hearst papers played up Spanish misbehavior in Cuba.

And Watergate is pretty darn important, so you can't just write it off for whatever reasons you're doing.
 
The Tet Offensive
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Not pictured: "Lém was captured near the site of a ditch holding as many as thirty-four bound and shot bodies of police and their relatives, some of whom were the families of General Nguyễn's deputy and close friend, and six of whom were Nguyễn's godchildren."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Loan#cite_note-5
 
I know this is pre-1900, but how about the Eliza Armstrong Case? I started a thread about it's affects once-but I had no replies.
 
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