The Spanish American War was influenced greatly by “yellow Journalism.” Develop an argument either supporting or opposing the following statement: “Modern news shows are a form of political propaganda very similar to the ‘Yellow Journalism’ of the late 19th and early twentieth centuries.”
In you answer be sure to clearly define what yellow journalism is and give an example from the Spanish –American War (or another example from that period). Then give modern examples to either buttress or refute the prompt. Your answer should be approximately 250 words long. Please read the other contributions to the blog after you make your submission. Be original!
Yellow Journalism is the act of making a story seem worse than it actually is. For instance before the start of the Spanish-American War there was an explosion of an American ship, the USS Maine. The stories after the explosion made the whole thing seem ten times worse than it already was. I believe that there is yellow journalism in the world and I also think that it will always be in our lives. Yellow journalism is everywhere in our world. For instance, think back to your last trip to Wal-Mart, you’re waiting in line, and then you see something that catches your eye in the magazine rack. What does it say? So and so are fighting and they may not get back together. Take for example the two twilight characters, at one point everyone thought they were going to get married, and then they got married, then they called off the wedding, who really knows what’s going on in these peoples lives? Everyone just found out that Pula Deen has diabetes, and she uses so much butter in her foods, and then oh goodness do you know what she’s eating? A cheeseburger! Oh no! Lets take a picture of her and make everyone believe that there is more to the story than there is. Everywhere, everywhere, and I really mean everywhere there is yellow journalism. You don’t even have to look very far to see it. Take a trip to your local store and see what you can find of yellow journalism. I bet you will find something.
ReplyDeleteYellow Journalism is the use of fake stories or propaganda. This was used in the Spanish-American war by exaggerating the conditions in Cuba. Yellow Journalism is still used today; this is shown in most all magazines when talking about celebrities. Yellow journalism is mostly used today with the use of fake sources. Many journalists want to be the best and therefore use fake sources to be able to say what they want about the topic they are writing on. This is used quite often in talking about celebrities. Someone sees two people spending a lot of time together, and they’re definitely dating! Angelina and Brad stopped being seen with each other and they’re definitely having problems, and someone told this journalist that Brad’s taking custody of the kids. Britney shaved her head and suddenly this magazine knows she’s having drug problems. How do they know? Well some unknown, most likely fake source, told them so. Yes, this makes for interesting stories, and magazines may ask for you to write for them more, but is it really worth it? Yellow journalism is the cause of our obsessing over celebrities. It also gets into things that it does not need to, just because these people are celebrities does not mean they need, or want, the constant attention. Yes, there are some that do want the attention, but maybe if we stopped paying attention to it, they’d stop being so outrageous.
ReplyDeleteYellow Journalism is a type of opinion or few facts about something. This kind of writing is “eye-catching” for some because it’s like a rumor or gossip not told well. People tend to go against others and make up a good lie that relates to them so that is why this worked so well back then. This was involved in the Spanish American War. Two guys: William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were a big part of this. They thought it was a good opportunity to just write about the brutality of the Spanish toward the Cuban Rebels. Then it all started. Cubans freaked out went crazy so to speak and then out of nowhere like it was some kind of coincidence that the USS Maine blow up and we blamed the Spaniards and etc. Real dumb. In modern day today yellow journalism is used everywhere. Billboards, magazines, commercials, newspaper, people, and just anything really. Here’s an example, we had so many candidates running for president you know to take Obama’s place cause he didn’t really “change” anything. Anyways that slowly went down. Ladies were accusing a candidate of having an affair with them and this and that just so people could look at him like “Why would we want a cheater for a president?” So I agree with using yellow journalism today. Because it’s basically propaganda. It messes up things and sometimes it ain’t even right. Another example would be phone commercials they talk bad about each other but they don’t know what’s wrong with which phone but they say these things so people can buy there’s when they should be buying the other one.
ReplyDeleteI support it because it is true the Spanish-American War was greatly influenced by “yellow Journalism.” Yellow Journalism is when the stories are being exaggerated, or distorted just to create sensations to attract readers. After the explosion on the U.S.S. Maine the country decided to blame it on Spain since we were having problems with them, because of Cuba. Even though there wasn’t any proof it had been them the country was mad and blamed it on the first person that came to mind. Most of the blame came from “yellow Journalism because the media was exaggerating or making up the stories and people were believing it and getting mad about it. They made Spain look terrible and compared Cubans to American Revolutionaries. I’m against modern day propaganda because they just instigate more problems, but I support it in a way because they get their point across and make the government realize their mistakes sometimes. One modern day example of yellow journalism is how on the news they talk about high gas prices. They talk about how gas prices are going to be up to $7 dollars a gallon when that never happens they’re just scaring everyone but they do that to get their attention so that they can keep watching. They publish this type news to their benefit because they need to have the attention of the people. Modern day propaganda can be positive because sometimes people need to understand situations from another point of view, but it can be negative because it can cause many problems and they can be taken as instigators.
ReplyDeleteYes Yellow Journalism is like the media we use today. Yellow Journalism may not have the same impact as out media today. We today use TV shows, newspapers, magazines and etc. As were back then they only used newspapers and the news to get stuff out. Though the point got across back then it’s a lot easier to get your point across today. Even though Yellow Journalism isn’t seen much today it is still every much used. People us it all the time during elections and when trying to up sale rates. It like rumors going around a town to help another schools status. Though things are false they may help out in the end. Or the can bring something bad to the world. So no matter what you think we use Yellow Journalism everyday. In school, at work, even on TV.
ReplyDeleteYellow Journalism is what people in the newspaper and journalism industry use's, which is based on biased opinion hiding an objective fact. Yellow journalism uses sensationalism, distorted stories and misleading images for the purpose of getting newspaper sales up and exciting public opinions and their emotions on a specific topic.
ReplyDeleteJournalists in before the Spanish American war, stated that the reason that the ship blew up was because the Spaniards sabotaged our ship so the Maine would blow into pieces, after which they stated that this one attack and what was happening to the Cubans was a threat to our way of life and the angel was the threat to our manifest destiny angel, which signified our belief of manifest destiny.
A modern day example would be whenever magazine companies try to sell more magazines by exaggerating stories and possibly stretching the truth very much such as saying is so and so getting a divorce? Or is Jennifer Hudson pregnant? And a lot of other examples would be in the political campaigns where people put together fake quotes of what people of the different party say or what they do, or what they plan to do that can be bad and judge them making them seem worse than they really are trying to win an election.
Overall yellow journalism has affected the way people have seen some things that are happening right now affecting their judgments and changing their emotions to affect the decisions that they could make which could lead to war like it did in the Spanish American war.
Dante Caviness
ReplyDeleteIn today’s world, “Yellow Journalism” is being used in a variety of ways including modern news shows by use of propaganda. The term “Yellow Journalism” is a technique used to advertise poorly researched topics and things going on. A lot of newspapers actually use this technique as a way to get their point across, regardless of the truth and what other people think.
Back in the 19th Century during the Spanish-American war it was greatly used to make us Americans believe in war and think it was good. William Randolph Hearst first used it when our battleship, the U.S.S. Maine was blown up while deported in Cuba. Without any prior knowledge or information, he used this a way to create war. He published an article in the newspaper stating that they had blown up our ship. This greatly angered the Americans and made the ones who already wanted war. He blamed it on the Cubans, although they may have not had anything to do with it. This just sparked the war even more.
Modern news shows today use this often, such as the likes of TMZ and other shows that show what celebrities do daily. They falsely put words in their mouths and have pictures of them. When you’re in the store, you most likely will see a newspaper that you’ve never heard of saying that Miley Cyrus is pregnant or Justin Bieber got an alien pregnant. I think this technique is a really poor way to try and sale papers. The truth is what the Americans really want to hear.
Yellow journalism shows no well-researched news; instead it uses eye-catching headlines that involve distorted stories misleading the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and public opinion. The name came from a popular New York World comic, which featured “the yellow kid”, he was a character wearing a yellow dressed. With the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine battleship in Havana Harbor, Cuba the American people blamed Spain thanks to William Randolph Hearts and Joseph Pulitzer owners of the newspaper that exaggerated and made up stories to attract readers to buy their newspaper. I believe that modern news instigate the creation of trouble about what’s true and what is a lie. Now days its harder to believe the real side of the story in the different types of situation that occur. Today yellow journalism comes in the news coverage. Modern journalists race to be the best of their category using false and exaggerated sources to attract people’s attention. One example of yellow journalism now days is the way many newspapers inform how immigration reform starts changing and the way it’s affecting U.S. citizens, the economy and immigrants from other countries. Immigration detention is no hospitality suite, which focuses on the customs of U.S. immigration and ICE for releasing new national standards for immigration detention facilities. Entitled “Deportation Manual” which is a guideline for illegal immigrants imprisoned. It should be a jail not a facility that resembles a hotel. This news are causing exciting opinions about what politics are planning to do about this situation whether they should keep this going or change it to a real jail treatment.
ReplyDeleteNoah Jones
ReplyDeleteI think that “Yellow journalism” is being used in modern news shows and is very similar to the political propaganda. Yellow journalism is a style that newspaper salesman use to sell newspapers by making semi-believable news that really did not happen. One example of yellow journalism during the Spanish-American War was when the newspapers used the Sinking of the Maine to falsely blame the Cubans. Today during the situation with the war in Iran the media is always stirring up riots and trying to destroy the peace with the slick skills. They claimed that Iran had necular weapons and were threatening to destroy Israel. Which we are apparent the big brother for Israel and we have to protect them and keep them safe. Another example of yellow journalism in today’s news was the whole Kristen Stewart and Robert Patterson getting married then a divorce but it ended up just being a bunch of lies.
Yellow journalism is in fact not really journalism. It is actually the use of big, eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. It is simply using exaggeration to enhance the actual events in the news that took place. Nowadays, we deem any journalism that portrays the news unprofessionally or unethical, yellow journalism.
ReplyDeleteDuring the Spanish-American war, there were two main driving forces behind the force named yellow journalism, those two drivers being Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Sparked by a battle of circulation from Pulitzer’s New York World and Hearst’s New York Journal, these two men are mentioned as the starting cause for the Spanish-American war. These two men to me, are an example of captains of industry in a since due to the fact that they cashed in on the conflict of the war and sold more papers. An example of one article published, is one by Hearst were he has a claim from Frederic Remington, a painter and illustrator. The claim states that Remington telegrammed Hearst saying, “There will be no war”, in which Hearst responded with “ Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” Now, historians believe no telegrams were ever sent of such.
As of the question on modern news shows and whether they are similar, I do believe that they are in a sort. Usually they often only show or tell one side of a news story, especially if it is a political issue. Leading most Americans to sway they way that they have stated.
I believe that "Yellow Journalism" is bad to our society, since Yellow journalism either gives us lies or makes the truth seem more dramatic then it really is. For example, when Yellow journalism was first introduce to society, was back in the Spanish-American war. Since is consider to be the first "media war"; because writers like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer that used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole, this examples were all considered to be Yellow Journalism. Before the Spanish-American war William R. and Joseph Pulitzer, blamed Spain for the USS Maine that exploded in Havana Harbor. That caused many Americans to be angry at Spain and eventually took us to war. Today, many popular newscast use Yellow Journalism as a way to attract people into been interested on the specific news that they might be reporting. Many famous types of yellow journalism are for example, when they see someone famous at an unusual place or doing something unusual journalist are quick to make up many stories about the unlucky famous person. One other example of Yellow Journalism can be when there is controversial things going on, in another country and journalists tend to make the story more dramatic then it already is. They usually make it more important in another country then it really is in the main country that the controversial disaster might be happening at. My overall opinions is that yellow journalism shouldn’t be done, it will always give people the wrong idea about something that they might feel sensitive towards it or in another occasion it could take us to war.
ReplyDeleteYellow journalism was a newspaper that made the people believe what they wanted them to believe. Yellow journalism was the only newspaper back then and made some influence in the Spanish American War, the Yellow journalism was the only media that inform of everything but exaggerated but the people didn’t know that they were lying about the whole thing. One of the biggest example where Yellow Journalism influence on the believes of the people was when the ship “Maine” blow up and yellow journalism wrote an article about it and blame the people from Spain for blowing the “Maine” and that made the people believe that the Spanish people were bad, and force the government to go to war with Spain.
ReplyDeleteToday people are noticing that the media like newspaper, Internet, and TV are also exaggerating about some of the stories that today is happening. In my personal opinion the US has always been like this, because before and now the US is always trying to make the people believe what they want, not the true. One of the examples in the modern day is that OBAMA wants to help to help the immigrants, and this year is the year where most immigrants’ people are been deported.
The newspaper, Internet, TV is a very dangerous and cautious form of information because a person doesn’t always says the truth. The Spanish American war was a little war for US because it was easy and the US gained 3 territories, and the yellow Journalism affected the US and it was their fault for the war because they were blaming people when they didn’t have nothing to do.