The Spanish American War By Carol Anderson Summary

Carol Anderson is an American history and literature teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She writes nonfiction articles and creates hand-bound books. Carol Anderson’s work really focuses on how yellow journalism could start the Spanish American War. Carol strongly focuses on the way the father of yellow journalism and the publisher of the New York journalism William Randolph Hearst manipulated his newspaper’s titles to persuade the publics opinion to increase paper circulation. Carl also talks about the publisher of the World Journal, Joseph Pulitzer doing the same thing. Due to the Spanish American War all of the newspapers were being very competitive, so both William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer sent war correspondents to Cuba in 1897. Hearst’s illustrator Frederic Remington told Hearst, “ there was no story to report”, Hearst’s reply was, “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.” Although Hearst denies stating that, it is still known for being one of the key examples of how the slum journalists would report stories that would have no truth behind it.
The term came from a cartoon called “yellow kid” made by Richard Outcault. Carl Anderson uses one of the most notable examples of yellow journalism in third paragraph. The Spanish minster to the United States, Enrique Dupuy de Lome wrote a letter to a friend-criticizing US president McKinley. The letter was later intercepted and published in Hearst’s newspaper. The negative feedback that the people felt towards de Lome was forced to resign. Another example that he uses is when the USS Maine sank in the Havana and the newspapers reported it as “Ships being blown up in Cuba.” Yellow journalism was fueling the fire for pro