Fill in the Blanks:(5 points) Put responses in the correct input to answer the question. Select a response, navigate to the desired input and insert the response. Responses can be selected and inserted using the space bar, enter key, left mouse button or touchpad. Responses can also be moved by dragging with a mouse. Yellow Journalism refers to a sensationalistic, exaggerated, and often wildly _____style of journalism. Historically, it refers to a period of time at the end of the 19th century when the United States was on the verge of war with ______ . The term refers to a comic strip that was found in the newspaper The New York World, a newspaper published and owned by Joseph Pulitzer His chief rival at the time was William Randolph Hearst , who also owned many newspapers, most notably the New York Journal. The more sensational the story and headline, the more newspapers they sold. With this as the backdrop to 1898, it is no surprise that historians often credit - or blame- these two with fanning the flames of war with Spain over events in _____. Many consider the height of Yellow Journalism to be the sinking of the U.S. battleship _____ off the coast of Havana. It was reported, along with a sensational artist depiction, that the ship was lost due to a Spanish terror plot. Though there was no evidence of this, it didn’t matter: people reading newspapers in the U.S. were outraged at what they read as a deliberate attack on the US. Calls for war became louder and louder and- not surprising- readership of the New York Journal and New York World _____ dramatically. By late- April of that year, the U.S. was at war with Spain.
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