Bailey Gillen
Robert Whitley
History 132-620
12 June, 2017
Primary Document Review: Yellow Journalism: Sinking of the Battleship Maine
Yellow journalism helps the media control politics in the United States. By avoiding crucial facts and isolating information that they want, the media can use this journalism tactic to skew the public’s perception of reality. As messed up as this seems, it also falls as the duty of citizens to be careful of what news they believe when they are searching for truth.
Yellow journalism was “a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts” (U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism). At the time, this was typically used in newspapers to sway the public’s opinion on something. The writer who uses
Robert Whitley
History 132-620
12 June, 2017
Primary Document Review: Yellow Journalism: Sinking of the Battleship Maine
Yellow journalism helps the media control politics in the United States. By avoiding crucial facts and isolating information that they want, the media can use this journalism tactic to skew the public’s perception of reality. As messed up as this seems, it also falls as the duty of citizens to be careful of what news they believe when they are searching for truth.
Yellow journalism was “a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts” (U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism). At the time, this was typically used in newspapers to sway the public’s opinion on something. The writer who uses