How War Fever, Affect The Spread Of War Fever

Yellow Journalism is a type of publishment in the newspaper that seems to be nothing more than a huge exaggeration to grab the reader's attention. An article like this is meant to catch the eyes of a customer and increase newspaper sales. The document I reviewed was an article in a newspaper from late in the 1800’s. The newspaper headline is titled, “Maine Explosion caused by Bomb or Torpedo?” There were many debates about who blew up the Battleship of Maine and how it happened.

Yellow Journalism before and during the time of the Spanish-American War was used used to fabricate political events between the Americans and the Spanish and used as a mechanism to go to war with the Spanish. In return, the news agencies profited and capitalized on the sales by selling tons of newspapers. The journalists would write about what was going on over seas and they would exaggerate what was happening. Yellow Journalism brought upon disagreements, deception, and lies, while depicting the Spanish to be some sort of Monster that was trying to destroy America. Yellow Journalism caused havoc across the world and served as a catalysts for the war. Evidently Yellow Journalism is exaggerated reportings on what happened overseas, used as a false propaganda to rile up the Americans, and lastly motivate them to go to war.

According to an article written in (His.state.gov), Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. In the late 19th century it was one of many factors that persuaded the United States and Spain into war in Cuba

The politically corrupt use fake media to deceive the general population and alter their opinions and views to match what fits their agenda. Another term for this obliteration is “yellow journalism,” and it has been the culprit of many ruined careers and relationships. Yellow journalism is journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Yellow journalism was a very hot topic back in the 1920’s and 1930’s and it has since then died out, until recently when the current President of the United States, Donald Trump ran for office.

Dysentery and diarrhea were a result of poor hygiene, close quarters with other sick soldiers and food not properly stored or prepared. Almost thirty percent of the population with chronic diarrhea died, while the survival rate for acute diarrhea was much higher. (Schoeder-Lein 86). Typhoid fever could mimic the symptoms of classic diarrhea and it was at times, hard to diagnose. According to CDC.gov, a person can get typhoid fever if they eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding Salmonella Typhi or if sewage contaminated with Salmonella Typhi bacteria gets into the water they use for drinking or washing food. Considering the sources of transmitting typhoid fever, it is understandable that this was one of the top killing diseases during the Civil War. Malaria and Yellow fever were both mosquito borne illnesses. Mosquitoes are a nuisance to us today, but during the Civil War they wreaked havoc on the population and caused widespread devastation across the entire land, but primarily in the South. Not just because of the warm climate but the lack of cold weather severe enough to kill the mosquitoes themselves. Yellow fever is a horrific illness that has multiple

“A pocketful of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down.” A common nursery rhyme that many probably don’t know relates to the Black Death. It’s interpretation goes like; a rosy rash was a symptom of the plague, posies of herbs which were carried as protection, sneezing or coughing another symptom, and finally "all fall down.” Like most nursery rhymes the interpretation can be interpreted differently. What’s important is not how you interpret it but, that you tried to in the first place. Specifically focusing on England, the agricultural advances, famine, and economic problems due to war makes the already growing stress in England come to a boiling point. When the Black Death finally arrives it’s greeted by crowded cities with unsanitary conditions, war (disease on the battlefield is not great) and a population still trying to recover from the Great Famine. The Black Death has long term and short term effects in England that would change: lower class, labourer service/money-rent (serfs/villeins), church view, and nobles. The momentum from these issues caused by the Black Death sparked Protestant Reformation ideas to begin which inevitably lead to the English Reformation.

For instance, in both the Spanish- American War and World War 1, it's evident that the use yellow journalism has been a major cause for war. This can be seen in the Spanish America War where newspaper reporters would 'coat the truth in yellow'. In other words, they would usually exaggerate or bend the truth in order to attract the attention of the public and sell more newspapers (basically for their own self-interest). According to the political cartoon in Document 2, one can see how the Spanish are depicted as some kind of wild brute that had just murdered a group of American sailors from the U.S.S Maine. Furthermore, this kind of reports inflamed the war effort by greatly infuriating the American public. This same concept can be seen in World War 1, where Anti-German propaganda was being used in order to turn the United States against Germany, as the propaganda greatly criticized German militarism and unprovoked invasion in Belgium. To add on, another similarity between the two wars being discussed in here was the sinking of some maritime vessel. For example, the sinking of the Lusitania as a result of Germany's illicit practice of unrestricted submarine warfare was a major factor for the United Sates entry into World War 1. According to Document 3 it states "The waters surrounding Great Britain and Iceland, including the English channel, are hereby declared to be within the war zone, and all enemy merchant vessels found in those waters after the eighteen of February, 1915 will be destroyed.'' This demonstrates how maritime vessels traveling along the English Isles were susceptible to attacks by German submarines, and unfortunately, this was the case for the merchant ship, the Lusitania (where 128 American passengers were killed, thus causing major disruptions among the American people). Moreover, this was the same for the U.S.S Maine during the

The Spanish soldiers didn’t just bring sharp, damaging weapons, but also pain and suffering in the form of plague and disease. The most significant of these tragic disease were most definitely smallpox, measles and the mumps. Smallpox is a crowd disease. Once it strikes a low density population it soon becomes extinct in that population as it does not have enough hosts. Thus, in American Indian populations, smallpox would strike, the population would plummet, and the disease would die out. The population would begin to recover and about a generation later, smallpox would strike again (Navajo, December 2009). All three had devastating effects and took millions of lives. Records dating back to the 1500’s confirm that there was a terrible smallpox epidemic immediately after the Spanish had arrived.

Censorship of bad news about the war in newspapers and magazines to maintain morale and support for the war effort was also vital to this new age of waging war.

In World War One diseases were one of the biggest problem for the solders due to lack of hygiene, medical assistance and little medicine. The most common diseases that the soldiers faced in the war were influenza, typhoid, trench foot, trench fever, malaria, dysentery and diabetes. These disease were caused by soldiers being exposed to cold, wet, windy and damp conditions.

Wartime relations can cause a country to get down as we saw in the United States during Vietnam to a point where a large portion of the public doesn’t support the war. One of the ways countries, like the United States, curb this is by creating propaganda. In World War II, the United States used the propaganda to get the public behind the war effort and to unite the country. This propaganda included posters to advertise,

The disease spreads from person to person through the air. By droplets from the nose and mouth of a person who has the disease germs. People can spread the disease before they show signs of being ill.

The article “Declining Biodiversity Speeds Spreading Of Disease” is about an increase of the transmission of disease, due to a decline in biodiversity from the disruption of ecosystems around the world. Not only is it spreading diseases that we are already familiar with, but it also forming is creating new strands of diseases. For example, in 2009 there were thirty thousand new confirmed cases of Lyme disease in the United States. This was believed to be caused by the decline in predators in the ecosystem and an increase of mice, deer and other tick host. Biologist Felicia Keesing, from Bard College has been studying the ecology Lyme disease for years and says the evidence is backing the link between biodiversity and the spread of disease.

In times of War, the media plays a crucial role both in reporting, monitoring and giving updates. During the Vietnam War of 1955-1975, the American press played crucial roles of reporting until it ended up shifting its tone under the influence of occurrence of some events like the Tet Offensive, the My Lai Massacre, the bombing of Cambodia and leaking of Pentagon papers resulting into lack of trust in the press (Knightly 1975). From the beginning of the war up to present times there have been undying debates over the role of media in the war. The have been various criticisms over the American News Media’s actions and influences on the outcome of the war. The debate is embedded on the particular political assumptions perceived across the

Yellow journalism was a major issue in the late 1890s during the Spanish-American War. The purpose of yellow journalism is to use headlines and report sensational events that draws the attention of the audience in order to sell more newspapers, even if the facts used were not legitimate. Yellow journalism came to an end with the development of objective journalism, which reports facts that are not biased. With the rise of social media, yellow journalism and “fake news” are making a comeback and becoming a “norm” in modern society. The rise of social media is contributing to the amount of yellow journalism and fake news that is occurring, which is ultimately leading to party polarization.