Yellow journalism is a style of writing that used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell newspapers in the millions. But the number of newspaper sales increased dramatically after the explosion of the battleship USS Maine. At 9.30 am on February 15, the USS Maine sank in the port of Havana. This begins the Spanish-American War. Then newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer began publishing the sinking of the USS Maine all over their front pages. The dramatic style of yellow journalism helped build public support for the Spanish-American War. The term yellow journalism comes from a popular New York World comic strip called "Hogan's Alley," which featured a yellow-clad character called the "yellow boy." '. William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer owned the RF Outcault newspaper in which he drew comics about life in the slums of New York. William Randolph Hearst copied Joseph Pulitzer's sensationalist style and even hired "Hogan's Alley" artist RF Outcault out of touch. Soon, the sensationalist press of the 1890s became a competition between the "yellow boys", and the journalistic style was coined "yellow journalism". Yellow newspapers like the New York Journal and the New York World relied on sensational headlines to sell newspapers. William Randolph Hearst understood that a war with Cuba would not only sell his papers but also advance his career as a reporter. In Cuba, Hearst's most famous reporters wrote stories designed to tug at Americans' heartstrings. It was the sinking of the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor that gave Hearst his great story about the war. After the sinking of the USS Maine, the Hearst newspapers, without any real evidence, unequivocally blamed the Spanish, and… middle of the paper… Mako, Hungary, the eldest son of Hungarian Jews. His father, Philip, was a wealthy grain merchant, who died when Joseph was eleven. A few years later his mother married Max Blau, a businessman. Pulitzer studied at a private school in Budapest. His first business as a master longshoreman in St. Louis failed. Pulitzer worked as a waiter, buried cholera victims of 1866 on Arsenal Island, and eventually found work as a reporter, first in St. Louis on the Westliche Post, a German-language newspaper. In 1877 he married Kate Davis, niece of Jefferson Davis. Pulitzer died early of heart disease aboard his yacht, the Liberty, on October 29, 1911. Yellow journalism had a great effect on the Spanish-American War, making it the first media war in history. This is what made the Americans dislike the Spanish. We still use media such as yellow journalism today.