USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

[SOURCES]
Fake news is the modern term for what during the 1890s?

(A) ** yellow journalism

(B) red journalism

(C) false advertising

(D) negative journalism

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States.

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: -Yellow journalism in the 1890s was the origin of objective journalism in the twentieth century. The term yellow journalism originated from a New York newspaper in the late nineteenth century that was printed on yellow-toned paper stock. President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term yellow journalism.