Evolution of Media: From Yellow Journalism to Professionalization

The press began in the early 1900s, where the era of yellow journalism had begun. Yellow journalism was sensationalized news that was sold as newspapers. It was a modern day tabloid that did not report factual information and it was extremely opinion based. These sensationalized stories would be sold through-out the states. Even though the information could have been false, the readers or citizens did not have the resources to criticize the newspaper and recognize whether the news was factual or false. Around the 1920’s the era of media professionalization emerged. Media professionalization was the act of setting standards for media, and becoming a professional field. It set obligations that democracy could not exist without a free, fair, and

During this coverage, Cuomo makes a few displeased expressions on his face while speaking to Trump; however, he does a well job speaking in a neutral tone, asking Trump questions without showing partisan bias towards a certain candidate or idea. Partisan bias is a term to show a strong support of a party, cause, or person. News reports became professionalized around the 1930’s by staying away from any opinion or bias practices. (Stevens 52). Although, some may argue that partisan press helps citizens get to know the candidates of each democratic and republican parties. Nonetheless, Cuomo does not give his input on the Kentucky clerk controversy, nor does he give clues to the audience of what his stance

When reporting to viewers, the information should be factual and correct. As I mentioned in my introduction yellow journalism did not worry what information was released as long as it was selling newspapers. In modern media, U.S. citizens self-govern the media to make sure their not providing false information. Some viewers automatically assume that all the information presented in the clip is accurate; however, there have been plenty of times where news sources will hurry-up and put everything together less than hour, although this tactic has its downfalls. There has been multiple times where news sources have misspelled words, and have used inaccurate information. For instance on May 4th, 2015, while Fox News was on the scene they reported that a Baltimore Police had shot a black man in his back. This information was gathered through an alleged eye-witness, who had seen the cop shoot the black male. While the reporter on the scene kept interviewing the same witness, he had received information from the studio that there was no shooting involved. From that moment the audience is confused on what actually happened in Baltimore. With the lack of a reliable source, Fox news falsely reported inaccurate news. The witness could have been right, but through the lack of credibility and reporters in studio correcting the reporting on the scene, viewers do not know what to