Richard F. Hearst's Article: A Timeline Of Yellow Journalism

The era of yellow journalism initiated the role of influencing public opinion on outside affairs in Spain. Document 5 illustrates two largely known

The United States suspected that Spain exploded the Maine, and to encourage more readers read their newspapers, the press made the headlines enormous and catchy, targeting Spain as the enemy that exploded the battleship. This made the people desire to retaliate against Spain much expanded. The newspapers, media, and the press reported the sinking of the USS Maine with large illustrations and splash headlines, and it affected the way the people of the United States perceived the Spanish-American War in many ways. The press can write whatever they can on their newspapers, and they can write sensationalized news to have their readers think like them. The press can also put into their newspaper whatever catchy graphics they need to encourage the readers interested in the news and the current events. They support the people's thoughts of the sinking of the Maine, and changing a person's opinion about a current event. The power of the press can alter a person's opinion toward a current event by putting in sensationalized text and

Before the founding of America newspapers were local and worked for their own agenda. With the unfair taxes and acts that were passed by Parliament the nation needed to create a unity in the colonies. Colonies formed Committees of Correspondence to keep each other informed of the resistance efforts throughout the colonies. Newspapers reprinted the tales of the protests and actions against Britain. This created American propaganda to obtain fair treatment from Britain. The greatest time that the newspapers came together to inform the colonies of the Boston Massacre. Being the biggest piece of propaganda at the time, the massacre lead to more colonists believing that they could be a part of a bigger political community and was one of the turning points in American History that lead to the independence of the country from British rule.

One of those important factors is Yellow Journalism. Yellow Journalism is a type of journalism or writing that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. It was pretty much stretching the truth to entertain readers or to get citizens to support someone on an issue. Yellow Journalism was also used to persuade U.S. citizens to support the war against Spain. Newspapers printed articles about how the United States wanted to help smaller countries that were being abused by Spain.

While eventually it was seen as a crude technique to sell more newspapers and push for the outcome that the publishers were in favor of, the term was birthed through the constant competition between newspaper publishers. In 1896, Joseph Pulitzer (Pulitzer Prize) and William Randolph Hearst were publishers of two leading New York newspapers and both were engaged in a bidding war over a cartoonist who drew a strip known as the Yellow Kid. The cartoon strip was a satirical representation of life in the slums of New York, and it originally acquired profit for Pulitzer’s paper, New York World. Hearst, in an effort to raise the earnings of his paper, bought the cartoonist. The fighting between Hearst and Pulitzer, over the cartoon and the market, lead to the transformation of the Yellow Kid. The Yellow Kid is arguably the first negative news source desired and was only the prelude to its successor, known as Yellow

While public tensions before August 1898 were surely high, nothing turned the public against Spain like the tragic blowing up of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. The lives of 260 American officers and men were lost. The yellow press and American investigators quickly blamed spanish officials in Cuba for the mysterious wreck. Although it is extremely unlikely that the spanish had anything to do with the Maine’s sinking, the War-Mad American public accepted this conclusion out of rage, overwhelmingly persuading President Mckinley to begin the war. McKinley personally did not want to fight a war against Spain, for he had seen enough bloodshed as a General in the Civil War. But the public, encouraged by the Cuban patriotic cause, yellow journalism, and the sinking of the Maine, clamored for a war. Finally, President McKinley yielded and gave the people what they wanted. He believed that the people should rule, even if they don’t know what’s best for themselves. Public pressure was the main reason we went to war with Spain, and the biggest cultivator of public unrest was the blowing up of “The Maine”.

Journalism has held an important role in society since the seventeenth century; people have depended on journalists to provide new and important information concerning a wide variety of topics. This dependency has led to a great deal of trust in journalists and their word and allowed for journalists to publish what they please. Mencken took advantage of the people’s trust when he published the article “A Neglected Anniversary” in the New York Evening Mail. Mencken created his own history of the bathtub and released it to the public in 1917. The manner in which the article is written completely deceived the readers; many truly believed Mencken’s account was true, and the story was believed for quite some time, even after Mencken revealed the truth. The developing trust in journalism and a journalist’s word during the early twentieth century created for the instant acceptance and longevity in belief of Mencken’s hoax.

Yellow Journalism was a form of newspaper that told outrageous stories to catch the readers’ eye. Newspaper publishers William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer II used the form of journalism as a marketing campaign to get customers, in order to buy their newspapers. They include stories, drawings, and cartoons. Instead, the journal gave birth to modern-day investigative Journalism. It was during the 1890s, this newspaper would cause a war between the United States and Spain.

Around the late 1800s, Spain was having a hard time with preventing Cuban’s from fighting for their independence. The revolts led Spain to send over General Valeriano Weyler, to put a stop to the protests. Consequently, he had anyone suspected of supporting independence, removed from the general population, and sent to concentration camps. Newspaper publishers, William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, gave the word out to the American people, with the use of a little Yellow journalism--journalism based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration, in an attempt to create disgust towards the Spanish government's actions. The American people, with their moral beliefs, and pride in their military might, decided to put into action the long-dormant

Penny press is defined as cheaply produced tabloid papers that were sold on street corners staring from the 1830s onwards. Their targeted audience was the largely growing working class. Usually contained with murders, rape, and blood shed to draw their readers attention. The term yellow journalism is coined with connotations of “fake news”. This form of journalism is purely to get more readers regardless of the facts or reputation of the publishers. Modern day yellow journalism is the magazine called Global. They are usually cheap magazines (penny press) followed by outrageous headlines that are fluid with bits and pieces of facts scattered through the media. Thus making them extremely unreliable media sources.

Yellow Journalism is the use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract Readers (Ch 18. section 2). The writers would make the stories a lot worse than what it really was. People did not respond well to what they were reading.Two journalist, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, sparked war with their embroidered and overblown articles, that poisoned the mind of Americans. so while the journalist instilled a false sense of

According to an article written in (His.state.gov), Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. In the late 19th century it was one of many factors that persuaded the United States and Spain into war in Cuba

Yellow Journalism is a type of publishment in the newspaper that seems to be nothing more than a huge exaggeration to grab the reader's attention. An article like this is meant to catch the eyes of a customer and increase newspaper sales. The document I reviewed was an article in a newspaper from late in the 1800’s. The newspaper headline is titled, “Maine Explosion caused by Bomb or Torpedo?” There were many debates about who blew up the Battleship of Maine and how it happened.

Journalism was introduced into the Americas when Benjamin Harris published the first multi-page newspaper titled “Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick” on September 25, 1690. Benjamin Harris decided to that there needed to be a newspaper and talked his idea over with the more knowledgeable people of the town. His greatest concern was that the newspaper has nothing but accurate reports. Benjamin met the Puritan Cleric Cotton Mather and acquired some suggestions on how to make detailed accounts of the military expedition into Canada. But “ Despite Harris’s good intentions, the governing council suppressed the paper almost immediately after publication.” “The Brief episode of Publick Occurrences was the upshot of the strong religious and political influences that had been at work in English life for the past century

Yellow journalism was a major issue in the late 1890s during the Spanish-American War. The purpose of yellow journalism is to use headlines and report sensational events that draws the attention of the audience in order to sell more newspapers, even if the facts used were not legitimate. Yellow journalism came to an end with the development of objective journalism, which reports facts that are not biased. With the rise of social media, yellow journalism and “fake news” are making a comeback and becoming a “norm” in modern society. The rise of social media is contributing to the amount of yellow journalism and fake news that is occurring, which is ultimately leading to party polarization.