USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yellow journalism usually refers to sensationalistic or biased stories that newspapers present as objective truth.

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-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.

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