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yellow journalism


Subject History

Place Northern America » United States of America

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x


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This was a style of reporting events that pandered to a vulgar taste for lurid, sensational news as a means of outselling a competitor's newspapers. It emphasized emotional, simplistic arguments over reasoned, objective analysis. Its pioneers were Joseph P ulitzer's New York World and William Randolph H earst's New York Journal . (Its name derived from a Journal cartoon figure called the “Yellow Kid.”) Its most notorious abuse was the deliberate inflaming of war fever after the USS M aine's sinking, which helped spark the S panish -A merican W ar . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Dictionary of American History



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