"The image of the magazine's front page can be considered yellow journalism because it includes mostly exaggerated and factually unproven statements. The USS Maine might've been destroyed by a mine, but no one was certain if it was a Spanish mine or not. Saying that the ship was destroyed by a Spanish mine villainized the Spanish, in which causing the Americans to act against Spain due to their anger. The sheer amount of money that someone could earn upon finding the perpetrator was also blinding their judgement. If American's weren't angry already, the sum of money included with finding whoever committed the crime only encouraged how they felt against the Spanish. "
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