Introduction

Welcome kid! Thanks for coming! Like I told you, I wanted you to come today so we could see what kind of journalist you really are. Ever since April 25, our country has been involved in the big hoo-ha they are calling the Spanish-American War. Well, it’s finally over, but there hasn’t been much news on what really happened during the war. Sure, we have tons of stories floating around out there, but with that “Yellow Journalism”, you never know if what you are reading is the truth. Ever since William Randolph Hearst and John Pulitzer came around, you can’t tell what’s real or what’s bull honkey. I guess anything to sell a paper!

That’s what I need you for. I need you to be the one journalist that actually tells the truth! I have gathered several resources, and I want you to go on the search for the truth about the Spanish-American War. I am putting you and your team in charge of next week’s paper, and I want it to knock the socks off of Hearst and Pulitzer, as well as all of our readers. It should make the readers of the New York Journal want to throw it out, and pick up one of our “truthful” papers. Sometimes though, it is a little hard to sell papers without a little pizzazz. Maybe you should sneak one article in that practices a little “Yellow Journalism”. However, I want the rest of it to be strictly the truth! You got it? Great. Now get out there and get me that story!!