The Yellow Kid

How did yellow journalism turn into fake news during a period of competition between Pulitzer and Hearst in coverage of the Spanish American War?

One of the best-known New Yorkers in the late 1800s was not a person at all. He was a character in a wildly popular newspaper comic, known as the Yellow Kid. For a time, the Yellow Kid appeared in two newspapers simultaneously, the New York World and the New York Journal, which competed to own the comic.

The struggle over the Yellow Kid was part of a larger "newspaper war" in New York City during the 1890s. Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the World, faced off against William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the Journal, in a battle to dominate the city's newspaper market. Their struggle over newspaper sales would provoke a real war: the Spanish-American War.

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Who wore it better?

How would each character feel differently about US imperialism and the justifications for going to war?