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To: rightistight

What is a “yellow journalist?”


7 posted on 10/13/2010 2:51:27 PM PDT by Misterioso (Burning a Koran is a victimless crime.)
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To: Misterioso

Yellow journalism:

“Yellow journalism or the yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.”

In other words, liberal members of the press

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism


9 posted on 10/13/2010 2:53:19 PM PDT by rightistight
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Didn't they teach that in History classes in what is now called "Middle School"?

Goes back to Pulitzer, Hearst, the Spanish-American War, etc.

Basically, sensational headlines without the facts, or just selective facts.

Come to think of it, practically any liberal "journalist" is a "yellow journalist" nowadays.

19 posted on 10/13/2010 3:33:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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