Yesterday, we had time to work on our Smithsonian Badges. For my current quest, I had to work on an eye-catching article about water issues in Africa.
In class today, we also learned about captivating headlines. We are learning about "yellow journalism," a tactic used to sell newspapers since the 1890s. The tactic exaggerates a situation to attract readers to catchy headlines. In this way, many events during US expansion into Alaska, Hawaii, and Cuba were exaggerated by the press. Today, we made "yellow journalism" headlines for each of the events. Maybe people didn't care about "yellow journalism" because the real facts did not matter to them. Maybe they were more comfortable to read interesting articles that avoided the facts and focused on fantasy.
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