CLEP US History II

Answer: C - William Randolph Hearst used his The New York Journal to inflame the sentiment of the American people regarding the Spanish-American War in order to further his own political agenda. Hearst was engaged in a bitter newspaper war with his local rival Joseph Pulitzer, whose New York World engaged in the same tactics. Today, the ethical standards to which most mainstream American news organizations hold themselves are mostly optional, but greater industry transparency and consumer vigilance has impeded similar acts of warmongering from occurring again.