yellow journalism

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Journalismwhich issensationalisticand ofquestionableaccuracyandtaste.1915,P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, inPsmith, Journalist:It is the sort of paper which the father of the family is expected to take home with him from his office and read aloud to the chicks before bed-time. It was founded by its proprietor, Mr. Benjamin White, as an antidote toyellow journalism.2007October 24, William Grimes, “Murder by Mail in Gilded Age New York”, inNew York Times, retrieved28 July 2008:In the heyday ofyellow journalism, newspapers like Joseph Pulitzer’sWorldand William Randolph Hearst’sNew York Journalsent out squads of reporters to hunt down leads and, if evidence failed to materialize, make up stories.

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