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yellow journalism: see newspaper newspaper, publication issued periodically, usually daily or weekly, to convey information and opinion about current events.
Early NewspapersThe earliest recorded effort to inform the public of the news was the Roman Acta diurna, ..... Click the link for more information. . yellow journalismIn newspaper publishing, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York papers, Joseph Pulitzer's World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal. When Hearst hired away from Pulitzer a cartoonist who had drawn the immensely popular comic strip “The Yellow Kid,” another cartoonist was hired to draw the comic for the World; the rivalry excited so much attention that the competition was dubbed yellow journalism. Techniques of the period that became permanent features of U.S. journalism include banner headlines, coloured comics, and copious illustrations. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This story," he told me, "is about how a single piece of yellow journalism can survive for 200 years if it serves some people's interest. The muckrakers Teddy Roosevelt blasted a century ago were social critics who had learned from yellow journalism that the public had an insatiable appetite for scandal, particularly when it involved the high and mighty. ``This was at the height of yellow journalism - a point in this country's history where the media was taking trials and turning them into spectacles,'' she said. |
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