USA HISTORY

What is the type of sensational reporting where writers exaggerated or even invented stories? (This helped lead to the Spanish American War in 1898)

(A) muckraking

(B) ** yellow journalism

(C) journalism

(D) reporting

Concept note-1: -Yellow journalism is an exaggerated, exploitative, sensational style of newspaper reporting. It emerged at the end of the nineteenth century when rival newspaper publishers competed for sales in the coverage of events leading up to and during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Concept note-2: -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-3: -Yellow journalism usually refers to sensationalistic or biased stories that newspapers present as objective truth.

Concept note-4: -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-5: -Major newspaper owners-including Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal-viewed public interest in the war as an opportunity to sell newspapers. The papers, in a circulation war, featured sensational coverage and attention-grabbing photographs of events in Cuba.