[ForGod'sSake]

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.

[LS]

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.