Chapter 5-Journalism as Warmonger, April 26

This chapter "Journalism as Warmonger" basically talks about the effects on The Spanish-American War. This war was going during the end of the nineteenth century. Two who revolutionized journalism were Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. They published visionaries in particular dominating the era and changed the profession. This war was an effect of the Cuban rebels that seeked to break the Spanish shackles that bound them to colonial status. Hearst and Pulitzer talked about the coverage of the 1898 explosion of the battleship U.S.S Maine that had led to a national hunger for war.

First and foremost, what I find interesting about this chapter was when "William Randolph Hearst Stupefies the World"(Streitmatter,77). This part of the chapter talks about William Randolph Hearst's life. It mentions that "Hearst was an only child of a father named George who is a self-taught mining engineer that has strucked rich in the silver mines of the Comstock Lode"(Streitmatter,77&78). What I found interesting was when William Randolph Hearst was young, he was doing bad things such as drinking a lot of alcohol and spending more time playing with his pet alligator. This shows that he was an indifferent student and he was expelled. He was expelled because he was sending his professors some kind of pots that had the likeness drawn on the bottom. Then, the young Hearst deciding to work as a journalists. First, it came to me that since he is a Californian and he published his first newspaper 'San Francisco Examiner' but all of a sudden this newspaper ad he came up with failed. Finally, what came up to me was some years later, Hearst published a paper called 'Examiner' and it became popular in journalism, as far the business goes.

Then second of all, what I also find interesting about this chapter was "The War of the Newspapers"(Streitmatter,79). This part of the chapter talks about the newspaper competition between Willie Hearst and Pulitzer. They became engaged in the newspaper war in journalism history. What I recall from this part of the chapter was the term 'yellow journalism'. I believe this shows when Hearst published a newspaper called 'New York Journal' and it had a picture of a cartoon character the yellow kid that meant the effect which was a symbol of journalism. This was when he was in New York publishing this journal. But all of a sudden, what came to me was Pulitzer had another artist by drawing the most famous cartoon. This shows how the war of newspapers that got heated up.