Neat list, but conspicuosly missing is what may have started it all, or at the very least changed a trickle to a flood: YELLOW JOURNALISM.
64 posted on 08/28/2006 10:06:59 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
Actually, while the majority of big papers transitioned to "objective" journalism after the Civil War, a large number of "pennies" and other papers, well before the "Yellow Journalists," maintained a steady dose of sensationalism and crime.