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How did newspapers that used yellow journalism react when the USS Maine exploded in Cuba in 1898?

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Despite the fact that the Maine probably exploded because a boiler, yellow journalists automatically assumed that it was the result of Spanish sabotage. Whether that was true or not, they didn't care. They wanted war with Spain
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