The term yellow journalism was coined around 1898 during the peak of the “circulation battles” between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal. Yellow journalism is “journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers,” and comes from “the use of yellow ink in printing ‘Yellow Kid,’ a cartoon strip in the New York World.” Pulitzer and Heart’s sensationalistic exploits were even blamed for the United States’ entry into the Spanish-American War, although historians have noted that “yellow journalism was largely confined to New York City, and that newspapers in the rest of the country did not follow their lead.” - See more at: blog.wordnik/a-brief-history-of-newspaper-lingo?utm_source=API+Newsletter+subscribers&utm_campaign=53ca93c814-Need_to_Know_September_19_20139_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-53ca93c814-31693269#sthash.noBdvpOC.dpuf
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:31:40 +0000
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