Yellow Journalism was born in the late nineteenth century out of the competition between publishing moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Competition between the two came to a peak when Hearst hired the Cartoonist Richard F. Outcault away from Pulitzer after Outcault’s popular cartoon “Hogan’s Alley” boost Pulitzer’s sales. Outcault’s most popular character from […]
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Yellow Journalism: Born from one War, Fueling Others for Decades
Posted by: bbukovic | September 22, 2014 | 1 Comment |“BABY IN BURKE BORN WITH TWO HEADS!” — Made ya look!
Posted by: bbeben | September 22, 2010 | No Comment |Yellow journalism, also known as yellow press, is a type of journalism whose sole purpose is to use eye-catching headlines in order to sell more newspapers. Stories offer news that is hardly, if at all, researched. Techniques of Yellow journalism include exaggerating news stories and sensationalism. The term yellow journalism was named after the “Yellow […]