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james creelman wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography toggle biography subsection 1 1 early life 1 2 career 1 3 interview with porfirio díaz 1 4 personal life 2 notes 3 references 4 external links toggle the table of contents james creelman 4 languages العربية مصرى azərbaycanca español edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia canadian american writer for the american film writer see james ashmore creelman james creelman james creelman november 12 1859 february 12 1915 was a canadian american writer famous for securing a 1908 interview for pearson s magazine with mexican president porfirio díaz in which the strongman said that he would not run for the presidency in the 1910 elections the interview set off a frenzy of political activity in mexico over the presidential elections and succession of power in the words of historian howard f cline the creelman interview marks a major turning point in the genesis of the mexican revolution 1 creelman is often cited as a central reporter during the height of yellow journalism 2 biography edit early life edit he was born in montreal province of canada the son of a boiler inspector matthew creelman and homemaker martha née dunwoodie career edit in 1872 creelman moved to new york city where his interest in literature and law attracted the patronage of thomas de witt talmage and republican party boss roscoe conkling his first job was in the print shop of the episcopalian newspaper church and state he later moved to the print shop of the brooklyn eagle by 1876 he joined the new york herald as a reporter creelman traveled extensively to find stories and was unafraid to take on great personal risk in their pursuit he joined adventurer and showman paul boyton on his treks across the yellowstone river and mississippi river dodged bullets reporting on the feud between the hatfields and mccoys and interviewed sitting bull he also interviewed mexican president porfirio diaz wherein diaz stated he would not run for reelection in 1910 to allow new leadership for mexico a promise he did not keep and that in part led to the mexican revolution after stints at several other newspapers including the paris herald the evening telegram and magazines illustrated american and cosmopolitan creelman landed at joseph pulitzer s new york world in 1894 where he accompanied the japanese army to cover the sino japanese war creelman s sensational reportage of the japanese seizure of port arthur and the accompanying massacre of its chinese defenders by the victorious japanese army garnered tremendous attention and put him in greater demand as a reporter 3 a significant assignment for creelman came in 1896 on a trip to cuba to report on tensions brewing between the island nation and spain by 1897 william randolph hearst had recruited creelman to his newspaper the new york journal and assigned creelman to cover the war between cuba and spain which broke out in 1898 in his 1901 book on the great highway the wanderings and adventures of a special correspondent creelman quoted hearst as telling artist frederic remington you furnish the pictures and i ll furnish the war hearst s descendants adamantly deny this claim 4 creelman was an open advocate for cuba in its war against spain and like many of his war correspondent peers he carried a sidearm while covering the battle for el caney creelman begged the u s general in command to allow him to join the charge on a blockhouse occupied by spanish troops finally the general assented and creelman advanced on the fort along with u s troops seeing the spanish flag lying on the ground creelman seized it feeling that it was only fair that the journal which helped to start the war should be the first to capture the spanish flag at this important battle creelman waved the flag in front of some spanish soldiers still entrenched nearby who responded with a hail of gunfire wounding creelman in the arm and back 5 in the mold of most yellow journalists of his time creelman was as much an advocate as a reporter in her book the yellow kids author joyce milton describes creelman as the self described conscience of the fourth estate who normally did as much talking as listening during interviews including once lecturing pope leo xiii on relations between protestants and catholics 5 creelman generally considered one of the premier reporters of his day also had a bit of an ego hearst once said of creelman the beauty about creelman is the fact that whatever you give him to do instantly becomes in his mind the most important assignment ever given any writer he thinks that the very fact of the job being given him means that it s a task of surpassing importance else it would not have been given to so great a man as he 5 on his way to the front to cover world war i creelman died suddenly in berlin of bright s disease 5 he was buried in brooklyn new york interview with porfirio díaz edit creelman got the scoop of a lifetime when he interviewed mexican president porfirio díaz for pearson s magazine in 1908 one scholar has described creelman as an obscure american journalist who by some mysterious means was chosen by díaz to publish a long eulogistic article in the united states 6 scholars have debated why díaz chose to grant the interview to an american journalist it is not clear why díaz made verbal commitments he did not seriously mean but their consequences were very definite 7 this interview prompted mexican president porfirio díaz to release a statement declaring he would call democratic elections and step down from office this sparked several political movements which sought to remove díaz s long period of rule and subsequently revolutionary uprisings for zapata creelman s article was only a part of the general context of discontent with díaz s policies especially land ownership and rural disparities zapata s rebellion in the morelos region was a reaction to the broken promises of land reform by diaz the pretense of political change created by the creelman interview worked to radicalize figures like zapata who would later become a leading revolutionary championing agrarian rights and the return of land to peasants one theory is that díaz gave it assuming it was aimed at a foreign readership another is that it was for mexican readers as a distraction from bad news of poor harvests and the financial effects of the panic of 1907 the interview could have also been aimed at drawing out díaz s opponents so that they could be targeted by the regime yet another theory was to draw out díaz s supporters to persuade him to run again although in 1910 he would be 80 8 the creelman interview remains a key factor in the events that led to the mexican revolution 9 personal life edit creelman married alice leffingwell buell of marietta ohio on december 10 1891 the couple had four children edward dunwoodie james ashmore constance alice and eileen buell son james went on to become a professional hollywood screenwriter daughter eileen married frederick morgan davenport jr son of new york republican congressman frederick morgan davenport creelman s father was born to an ulster scottish family who migrated to montreal from limavady ireland his mother was of scottish descent notes edit cline h f the united states of mexico cambridge harvard university press 1961 p 115 joseph horowitz 2012 moral fire musical portraits from america s fin de siècle university of california press p 101 phillip knightley 1975 the first casualty from crimea to vietnam the war correspondent as hero propagandist and myth maker new york harcourt brace jovanovich p 58 on the great highway the wanderings and adventures of a special correspondent boston lothrop 1901 p 178 1 2 3 4 milton joyce the yellow kids cline united states and mexico p 115 friedrich katz the liberal republic and the porfiriato in mexico since independence leslie bethell ed cambridge cambridge university press 1991 p 119 stanley r ross francisco madero apostle of democracy new york columbia university press 1955 pp 46 47 cline the united states and mexico p 115 references edit milton joyce 1989 the yellow kids foreign correspondents in the heyday of yellow journalism harper isbn 0 06 092015 7 external links edit wikimedia commons has 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