yellow journalism

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Meaning

yellow journalism (uncountable)

(idiomatic) Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.

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I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism. Larisa Alexandrovna

I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet. Kurt Loder

By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion. Source: Internet

In the late 1890s, US public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propaganda led by journalists such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst which used yellow journalism to call for war. Source: Internet

McKinley hoped that the negotiations would be able to end the yellow journalism in the United States and therefore end the loudest calls to go to war with Spain. Source: Internet

When honors world history teacher Jennifer Gomez asked her students to create a 10-minute documentary on the topic of their choice, sophomores Morgan Lui and Keila Waddell teamed up to explore the role of yellow journalism in history. Source: Internet

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