Question

Why do you think newspaper owners like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

would use yellow journalism before and during the Spanish-American War?

Answer 1

push for American involvement in the war

Step-by-step explanation:

William Randolph Hearst is famous for having used his newspapers to push for American involvement in the war. Hearst and his papers used yellow journalism to push the US into the war by constantly trying to make the Spanish look as bad as possible. They started out by hyping what they saw as Spanish atrocities.