Critical Thinking 18-3!

What do you think were the unstated editorial polices of yellow journalism?

Yellow journalism was a writing tactic used by exaggerating news to get more peoples attention. Articles with an editorial touch are written with the authors views clearly shown, they are articles with bias. The editorial polices in yellow journalism were that an author could use there own views to exaggerate a store and swing peoples views around to there way of seeing a story. Also writers of yellow journalism would try to create the most interesting story to get more people to buy the newspaper. Writers such as Pulitzer and Hearst were two writer that were competing in newspaper sales. They would both try to write the most intense, compelling stories to grape the more readers attention. They would write about poisoned wells and other horrible things that people wanted to red about. Hearst also new that if he add pictures to his stories then if would spark even more peoples interest and even help propel a war between American and sprain. Along with pictures a simple attention graping headline could become a rally cry for people reading the newspapers and push for war with Spain. Even if there was no substantial proof that Spain blew up the ship, headlines and pictures were a convincing enough lure for many people to join in on supporting American ans Spanish warfare.