yellow journalism

     

Yellow journalism is a pejorative reference to journalism that features sex scanals, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. It has been loosely defined as "not quite libel".

Trivia about yellow journalism

  • This expression for newspaper sensationalism came from "The Yellow Kid" which ran in the N.Y. World
  • Sensationalistic "journalism" that exploits, distorts or exaggerates the news
  • Type of reporting Hearst & Pulitzer used to fan the fires of war between Spain & the U.S.
  • An ink used in a newspaper cartoon in the 1890s gave us this term for sensationalist reporting

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