#1 2009-04-09 08:53:29
Someone just pointed this out to me, sound familiar?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers. It may feature exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. Campbell (2001) defines Yellow Press newspapers as having daily multi-column front-page headlines covering a variety of topics, such as sports and scandal, using bold layouts (with large illustrations and perhaps color), heavy reliance on unnamed sources, and unabashed self-promotion. The term was extensively used to describe certain major New York City newspapers about 1900 as they battled for circulation. By extension the term is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion, such as systematic political bias. Yellow Journalism can also be the practice of over-dramatizing events.
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#2 2009-04-09 12:07:02
wow wilkepedia! free and full of facts wish we had something like that around here.
at first i wasnt sure it that was a wilkepedia definition or bob's last resume
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#3 2009-04-09 14:09:37
oneeardog wrote:
wow wilkepedia! free and full of facts wish we had something like that around here.
at first i wasnt sure it that was a wilkepedia definition or bob's last resume
That definition sucks. Yellow journalism is really nothing more than derisive term Wm R Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer flung at each other. Forget exactly who started it, but they were both guilty of multiple sins.
Originally, the term was strictly meant to describe the color of a single comic strip.
Here's a better description:
Pulitzer’s fortune was built on single-copy sales, at a penny a paper, on the streets of New York. His estimation of the reading appetites of immigrants was far higher than that of many of his reformist friends, and his readers proved him right. He served up a blend of investigative reporting, instruction about city life, comics (including “The Yellow Kid,” the source of the derisive label “yellow journalism”), cheerleading for the Democratic Party, adventure, and true-life soap opera about tycoons and trusts, cops and crooks, Madonnas and whores. In Pulitzer’s words, the World would become “a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic.”
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