Sensational reporting, often wildly inaccurate, used to increase readership & sell more newspapers William Randolph Owner of The New York Journal, one of the nation’s major Hearst newspapers The Journal reported that the Spanish were feeding Cuban prisoners to the sharks & the dogs (Not true) Pulitzer (L) Hearst (R) Go to war over the War of The World, another major national newspaper Joseph Pulitzer Not to be outdone by Hearst’s paper, described Cuba as a The World with blood on the roadsides, blood in the fields, blood on the “place doorsteps” Spain sent nearly 200,000 troops to put down the rebellion Protector of the People? was appointed as governor, but his harsh General Valeriano Weyler policies earned him the nickname Butcher” from yellow journalist “The William Randolph Hearst The Cuban rebels carried out a & run” strategy, often targeting ‘hit American businesses in hopes that America would intervene To Cuban citizens from the rebels, Gen. Weyler rounded up ‘protect’ hundreds of thousands of men, women & children into ‘reconcentration camps.’ By separating them they could not help the rebels. Out of approximately 500,000 people who were forced into these camps, almost 200,000 died, many of starvation & disease News reports of this enraged Americans and led to renewed for intervention
Sensational reporting, often wildly inaccurate, used to increase readership & sell more newspapers William Randolph Hearst Owner of The New York Journal, one of the nation’s major newspapers The Journal reported that the Spanish were feeding Cuban prisoners to the sharks & the dogs (Not true) Pulitzer (L) Hearst (R) Go to war over the War Joseph Pulitzer of The World, another major national newspaper Not to be outdone by Hearst’s paper, The World described Cuba as a “place with blood on the roadsides, blood in the fields, blood on the doorsteps” Protector of the People? Spain sent nearly 200,000 troops to put down the rebellion General Valeriano Weyler was appointed as governor, but his harsh policies earned him the nickname “The Butcher” from yellow journalist William Randolph Hearst The Cuban rebels carried out a ‘hit & run” strategy, often targeting American businesses in hopes that America would intervene To ‘protect’ Cuban citizens from the rebels, Gen. Weyler rounded up hundreds of thousands of men, women & children into ‘reconcentration camps.’ By separating them they could not help the rebels. Out of approximately 500,000 people who were forced into these camps, almost 200,000 died, many of starvation & disease News reports of this enraged Americans and led to renewed for intervention
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