How Journalism Caused the Spanish-American War
8 min readJun 1, 2020
The term Yellow Journalism was coined in the 19th century to refer to a situation where newspaper companies were fighting each other to produce the most sensational stories, by overhyping events to present a biased impression and cause manipulations to the truth of a story. Newspapers were designed to provide reading material for a mass of audience. However, this need led to the use and abuse of journalism by…
