Yellow Journalism refers to a sensationalistic, exaggerated, and often drag and drop answer here
style of journalism. Historically, it refers to
a period of time at the end of the 19th century when the United States was on the verge of war with
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, regarding
tensions in the Caribbean. Though you may think that the term uses the word "yellow" to refer to something cowardly, that is not the case. The term
refers to a
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that was found in the newspaper The New York World, a newspaper published and owned by
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(He also owned a number of other major newspapers around the United States.) His chief rival at the time was
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who also owned many newspapers, most notably the New York Journal. The more sensational the story and
headline, the more newspapers they sold. With this as the backdrop to 1898, it is no surprise that historians often credit - or blame- these two with
fanning the flames of war with Spain over events in
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Many consider the height of Yellow Journalism to be the
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off the coast of Havana. It was reported, along with a
sensational artist depiction, that the ship was lost due to a Spanish terror plot. However, there was
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evidence of
this. But it didn't matter: people reading newspapers in the U. S. were outraged at what they read as a deliberate attack on the US. Calls for war became
louder and louder and- not surprising- readership of the New York Journal and New York World
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dramatically. By
late- April of that year, the U. S. was at war with Spain.
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