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... ... middle of paper
in success and numbers, popularity for yellow journalism began in the 1890s during the Spanish-American War. Hearst and Pulitzer used “melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers” (Yellow Journalism). Middle class artist, R.F. Outcault, drew the icon for yellow journalism: the Yellow Kid. He was clad with “his jug ears, two buck teeth, beady blue eyes, and yellow nightdress”. The Yellow Kid was embraced by his readers during the time when America was under turmoil. The middle class