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Your answer would be editors exaggerated events to build support for war.
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News organizations were engaging in yellow journalism before the Spanish American war when editors exaggerated events to build support for war.
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Definition of Yellow Journalism:
News that has no trustworthy evidence or support, but uses headlines that catches people's attention, and make sales from it. Editors that are involved in yellow journalism usually use this technique to fool people to believe what their news is saying.
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Step-by-step explanation:
The reason why this would be your answer is because before the Mexican-American war, there were journalist who were making news to encourage the U.S to go into war with Mexico (for territory). The editors that made the news in the newspapers went a little over board and made little events seem like a big problem. The editors in the newspapers made the people of the U.S think that Mexico is bad and did stuff that is wrong, they exaggerated on stuff that Mexico did that made people think that they're bad. The editors had no evidence on the things that they were saying that Mexico did, but the approach they had on the newspapers fooled people into believing them. People still believed them and they made sales of the newspapers. Since people started to believe in the exaggerated news, other organizations were joining in and making headlines on the news that would get people's attention to go to war with Mexico.
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