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In 1895 William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the __San Fransicso Examiner__, purchased the __New York Morning Journal__ and began a subscription war with Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper the __New York World.__ Both new york city papers exploited the Cuban crisis of the 1890s, and the reporting surrounding these events was perhaps yellow journalism's most famous episode. This lurid sensationalism fueled the anger of the American public and made it difficult for president Mckinley to effect a peaceful resolution. Hearst used the paper after the accidental explosion of the //U.S.S. Maine// as a way to denounce Spain and whip the American public into a frenzy for war.