chapter 18 section 2 critical thinking 5

what do you think were the unstated editorial policies of yellow journalism?

• James Creelman's account of Spanish atrocities against the cubans


• Hearst remark to remington


• the journal headline about the explosion of the battleship Maine

during the time before the Spanish American war, there were many newspapers participating in yellow journalism. Yellow journalism was a style of writing that exaggerated the truth as a way to encourage people to buy the paper. there were two newspapers that were famous for this use at this time: they were the New York Journal, and the New York World. yellow journalism really had no policies to it so the companies could over exaggerate the truth as much as they wanted. three great examples of this at the time were the Creelman accounts, the use of Remington by Hearst, and the news coverage of the explosion of the Maine.

James Creelman was a reporter who was sent down to Cuba to report the state of the people of Cuba. what he reported was overly exaggerated. some exampled of this were that "American citizens were imprisoned and slain without cause...blood on the roadsides, blood in the fields, blood on the doorsteps..." (PG. 552). Creelman also described the Spanish as poisoning the Cuban wells and throwing Cuban children to be eaten by the sharks.

another example of a lack of editorial policies were the paintings by the artist Frederic Remington. He was sent to Cuba to paint the carnage and crime. he claimed that there was no war and Hearst said to make it up. the final account of failed editorial policies was the reporting of the expolison of the U.S.S. Maine. the newspapers reported the attacks and a deliberate offensive agaisnt the united states. the news papers were even offering reward for the person who turned in the attacker of the warship.