Yellow Journalism

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“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist, It’s absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things everyday and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees” quoted by Marguerite Duras. When looking at things there could be a hidden message within the information that is given. Facts are not always what they appear to be. There has always been propaganda which is misleading information and one of the main sources that uses this technique the most would be newspapers and magazines. When something happens you may not be getting all the information. Images can mislead you into thinking something else. Throughout history, yellow journalism has demonstrated various ways that journalist have sensationalized information to benefit herself interests.
In 1895 the only way to get information was through newspapers. One of the biggest newspapers of its times was New York World. What made it the biggest news corporation was that there was a comic strip called “Hogan’s Ally”. One of the main characters was a young boy with large front teeth and wore a long yellow gown that lived in New York; the boy became known as the Yellow KId. This comic strip made World’s competitor the New York Journal to come up with better ideas for his news paper. When the Journal could he hired Richard Felton Outcault to do the same comic stip in his news paper.When R. F. Outcault got hired at the Journal this caused a war between the two companies which carried out for years. They both printed stories that were dishonorable and events that never happened. Be...

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...hich is misleading information and one of the main sources that uses this technique the most would be newspapers and magazines. Images can mislead you into thinking something else.

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Eaton, T. (2011, February 13). Com 208: Pulitzer vs. hearst. Retrieved from http://themediajungle.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/com-208-yellow-journalism-era/

Oracle Education Foundation (2011, September 14). Propaganda in the spanish-american war. Retrieved from http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/spanamer/app.htm

Origins Yellow Journalism. (2004). Writing, 27(2), 6.

Richard D. Olson. R. F. Outcault, The Father of the American Sunday Comics, and the Truth About the Creation of the Yellow Kid.http://www.neponset.com/yellowkid/history.htm

Vance, J. (n.d.). The "yellow fever" of journalism. Retrieved from http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring04/vance/yellowjournalism.html

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