How did the yellow journalism contribute to american support of the cuban revolution?

Answer 1

Publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were fierce competitors, and they both began to take their one-upmanship to coverage of the Cuban Revolution. They both used yellow journalism in reporting the stories, some true, some not, that painted a clear picture of the revolutionaries bravery, and Spain's bullying. More and more Americans, as a result of this type of reporting, wanted Spain out of Cuba. It all came to a head when the USS Maine, which was docked near Havana, was leveled by an explosion. Although a Navy investigation simply stated the explosion came from mine in the harbor, Hearst and Pulitzer declared it a Spanish attack on an American ship. Within months, the Spanish American War had begun.