USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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Exaggerated stories to sell newspapers

(A) Industrialism

(B) Militarism

(C) ** Yellow Jouralism

(D) Imperialism

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Concept note-1: -yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York City newspapers, the World and the Journal.

Concept note-2: -Yellow journalism usually refers to sensationalistic or biased stories that newspapers present as objective truth. Established late 19th-century journalists coined the term to belittle the unconventional techniques of their rivals.

Concept note-3: -Led by newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890s used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers–a style that became known as yellow journalism.

Concept note-4: -Yellow journalism became most known through the Spanish-American War of 1898. Between 1895 and 1898, the growing Cuban War of Independence between Spain’s colony of Cuba and its imperial ruler was sensationalized by Pulitzer and Hearst.

Concept note-5: -Clickbait is a modern-day example of yellow journalism. Clickbait refers to online content whose sole purpose is to get people to click on the link and generate page views, thereby generating profit.