YELLOW JOURNALISM

The term, as it commonly applies, refers to news organizations for whom sensationalism, profiteering, and in some cases propaganda take dominance over factual reporting. Most cases tend to be related to journalistic bias, and the endemic practices of particular organizations to operate as mouthpieces, for rather limited and particular allegiances, rather than for the public trust.

YELLOW JOURNALISM

Review of American Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny - Let’s keep it going!

• Alaska - Bought from Russia - “Seward’s Icebox”

• Hawaii - Taken by American planters - Dole Pineapples

History of Cuba

• Controlled by Spain

• One of their few remaining colonies

• Have put down several earlier rebellions in Cuba.

• Willing to go to great lengths to maintain their hold on past glory.

History of Cuba (cont.)

• 1890’s, Jose Marti leads renewed struggle

• Attacks American businesses…Why?

• Dies in 1895.

• Little U.S. involvement in early 1890’s.

U.S. Interest Increases

• Spanish concentration camps in Cuba.

• de Lome letter published in New York Journal.

• Jan 1889, USS Maine sent to Cuba.– America is watching… intimidation.

The Evening Telegraph showed its readers the contempt in which Spain held the United States shortly before the Spanish-American war, by printing this political

cartoon that had run in the Havana (Cuba) newspaper, El Pueblo.

Below the caption, the following information was found:"From the last issue of El Pueblo, of Havana. How 'The American Pig,' pricked by

the Spanish Press, humbles himself before the British Lion."

The Competition

William Randolph Hearst

The New York Journal

Joseph Pulitzer

The New York World

The Big Type War of the Yellow Kids

CANADA ATTACKS U.S.!!!

TERROR

CRAFT