Why did late-1890s newspapers publish sensational stories about Cuba and the Spanish-American War?

Question:- Why did late-1890s newspapers publish sensational stories about Cuba and the Spanish-American War?

Answer:

Contemporary newspapers became interested in Cuba and the Spanish-American war especially more so in the late-nineteenth century, and their focal interest was to Ellen increase their circulation and readership. This process, referred to as ‘yellow journalism’, provoked such stories or created new ones intending to make the stories more spectacular.

Newspaper tycoons such as William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer were in rivalry with one another for readership and thus reporting on the rebellion of Cuba against Spanish rule as well as the ensuing war was one of the most efficient means to attract the readers’ attention. These newspapers always depicted the conflict in ways that would enrage the people and make them more patriotic and jingoistic thus leading to the Spanish-American war in 1898.

In some newspapers, yellow journalism focused mainly on the commercial aspect of the business and circulation rather than its credibility and used sensation and Fake news as its tools. Due to this approach, an influential impact on the formation of the public and the regulation of events before the war was defined.