History of the United States II / Unit 7 USH2 0910 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Yellow Journalism
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The idea
Hearst's New York Journal and Pulitzer's New York World competed with sensational stories that, the Yawp says, came at the cost of accuracy.
In practice
The Spanish minister's private letter criticising McKinley as weak, published by the Journal on February ninth, eighteen ninety-eight.
Where people slip
The National Archives holds that De Lôme letter. Six days later the press had a far larger story.
Your place on the trail
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