18-2 Critical Thinking

What do you think were th unstated editorial policies of yellow journalism?

Apparently, it wasn't stated that journalists could exaggerate their stories simply to increase sales. As described in James Creelman's works of journalism, the American citizens in Cuba were apparently "slaughtered" and is enough of an argument to get people thinking about war. The way Creelman put it was far to the extreme of what actually happened, but since it was in a newspaper, the people of America believed it. (552)
Some Journalists in opposing newspapers even had wars against each other, such as Hearst and Weyler. When Hearst sent an artist to Cuba, the artist informed him that the place doesn't look like there was a war at all, let alone between the US and Spain. Then, in 1898, when the USS Maine exploded, which was most likely an accident, the papers immediately started pointing fingers a Spain, which was the true spark of the Spanish-American War. (553-554)