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'''Yellow Journalism''' is an unflattering term used to describe media coverage that is sensationalized in order to bring about a desired result. While not necessarily outright lies, it plays rather loosely with the truth or presents information in a way where conclusions are reached that might not be drawn if all information was presented.
'''Yellow Journalism''' is an unflattering term used to describe media coverage that is sensationalized in order to bring about a desired result. While not necessarily outright lies, it plays rather loosely with the truth or presents information in a way where conclusions are reached that might not be drawn if all information was presented.
Both [[Joseph Pulitzer]] and [[William Randolph Hearst]] are associated with bringing yellow journalism into American society through their newspapers in the later half of the nineteenth century. The prominence of yellow journalism was especially notable in coverage of the [[Spanish]] occupation of [[Cuba]] and Pulitzer and Hearst took credit for the [[Spanish American War]] that followed.
Both [[Joseph Pulitzer]] and [[William Randolph Hearst]] are associated with bringing yellow journalism into American society through their newspapers in the later half of the nineteenth century. The prominence of yellow journalism was especially notable in coverage of the [[Spanish]] occupation of [[Cuba]] and Pulitzer and Hearst took credit for the [[Spanish American War]] that followed, but historians dispute the claim. Their papers reached only New York City readers, and it was the rest of the country that demanded war in 1898.
==Bibliography==
* Auxier, George W. "Middle Western Newspapers and the Spanish American War, 1895–1898," ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' (1940) v. 26 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1896320 in JSTOR]
* Campbell, W. Joseph. ''Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies,'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/read/111900386?title=Yellow%20Journalism%3a%20%20Puncturing%20the%20Myths%2c%20Defining%20the%20Legacies online edition]
*Emory, Edwin and Michael Emory. ''The Press and America'' (4th ed. 1984)
* Nasaw, David. ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'' (2000)
* Rosenberg, Morton, and Thomas P. Ruff. ''Indiana and the Coming of the Spanish-American War,'' (1976), finds that Indiana papers were "more moderate, more cautious, less imperialistic and less jingoistic than their eastern counterparts."
* Smythe, Ted Curtis, and Sloan, W. David, eds. ''The Gilded Age Press, 1865–1900,'' (2003), [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=107069643 online]
* Sylvester, Harold J. "The Kansas Press and the Coming of the Spanish-American War", ''The Historian'' 31 (February 1969), finds no Yellow journalism influence on the newspapers in Kansas.
* Welter, Mark M. "The 1895–1898 Cuban Crisis in Minnesota Newspapers: Testing the 'Yellow Journalism' Theory", ''Journalism Quarterly'' 47: 719–724 (Winter 1970)
see [[Battleship Maine]]
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