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Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century, it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to overseas territory by the United States.

Sober observers and an initial report by the colonial government of Cuba concluded that the explosion had occurred on board, but Hearst and Pulitzer, who had for several years been selling papers by fanning anti-Spanish public opinion in the United States, published rumors of plots to sink the ship. When a U.S. naval investigation later stated that the explosion had come from a mine in the harbor, the proponents of yellow journalism seized upon it and called for war. By early May, the Spanish-American War had begun.

====Newspapers Reflected Public Opinion ====

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Moreover, influential figures such as Theodore Roosevelt led a drive for U.S. overseas expansion that had been gaining strength since the 1880s. Nevertheless, yellow journalism of this period is significant to the history of U.S. foreign relations. Its centrality to the history of the Spanish American War shows that the press had the power to capture a large readership's attention and influence the public reaction to international events. The dramatic style of yellow journalism contributed to creating public support for the Spanish-American War, a war that would ultimately expand the United States' global reach.

* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]

*Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journalism| U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895–1898]

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