Yellow Journalism in the Spanish American War

This Cartoon displays a prime example of Yellow Journalism, a biased opinion masquerading as objective fact, during the Spanish American War. In this photo, it shows a Spanish man showing Spanish "politeness" while in the background, there is a ship sinking. This is an example of Yellow Journalism because during the pre-era of the SPanish AMerican War, the journalist, and cartoonist displayed the SPanish as terrible, crooked people. This could possibly be showing the USS-MAINE being sunk during its friendly visit to the Havana Harbor. Although it really wasn't Spain who sunk it, it was a boiler being blown up on the ship.