Yellow+press+Pt.1

Intro. to Yellow Press:

During the Spanish-American war there were two newspaper authors Pulitzer and Randolphurst. These two writers considered each other feirce competition in the "press war's". The main topic during the battle between newspaper companies was about the cuban rebels attempting to get freedom while the spanish was dening it. The two companies constantly were printing amazing stories about specific rebels that got away from the attrocites.

Some of these stories consisted of terrible tragedies that occurred during the war. The stories would include descriptions of the concentration camps where the woman were starved and worked till they couldn't any more. These companies continued to reach americans with their touching stories ending up effecting the american effort in the war.

This photo to the right of me is a propaganda poster that is describing the tensions that Pulitzer and Randolph Hurst had. It shows that they did not like each other and wanted to be on top in the journalism field.

This cartoon below represents an american soilder rustling with a cuban and spanish solider. He also is kicking what appears to be a rebel. This american soilder also has a facial expression that makes him look on top. He has a cigar in his mouth and doesn't even have his gun out. This also can represent how the country is turing into an imperilastic country. The cuban soilder also has a whip attached to him which looks like it was the editors effort to make it look like they have been doing something wrong all day. Some of these cartoons can be seen to be fake or not reperesting the scene as a whole. The two big factors before and during the war was Pulitzer and Hurst this is simply becuase they created devistating stories to the public. This was also seen to be some of the cause towords why we had gotten in the war in the first place.

The photo to the bottom right is Randolph Hurst and he looks very stern in the photo. This was i probabley because he just read an article from his main competior Joesph Pulitizer. These mens tactics were fierce and the thing that the constantly did ws create papers with aritcles that most of the time were not that true. Even though they werent true they still swayed the decision of people in power determing whether or not to go to war with spain.



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