11 Dez 1895 Jahr - Yellow Journalism

Beschreibung:

- Practice of exaggerating news stories to further a political cause.
- Hearst and Pulitzer = huge, rival newspaper companies. Both are pro-expansionalist. They know that if the US goes to war, more newspapers will sell.
- They spun a story that Cubans need the US to help fight evil, evil Spanards. They shaped public opinion; pushed people to want the US to intervene.

-Cause of Spanish American War

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