“The yellow press possessed an effervescence, a visceral and essential appeal that newspapers 100 years later seem desperate to recapture,” Campbell writes in Yellow Journalism.

This was the attention-grabbing headline of the Hearst newspaper at the beginning of the Spanish-American War in 1898. In the years before radio and television, newspapers were the major source of ...

Back in 1898, newspapers were the major source of news in America. At that time it was common practice for a newspaper to report only the editor's opinion of the news rather than objective ...

The era of Yellow journalism commenced. News became hyperbolic, fact and fiction were blurred and the sordid was emphasized. Newspapers published with impunity dangerously false medical ...

You don’t need me to describe the ill effects of a world where viewers can’t distinguish Walter Cronkite from Alex Jones, but here we are. I admit that I didn’t see it coming.

You don’t need me to describe the ill effects of a world where viewers can’t distinguish Walter Cronkite from Alex Jones, but here we are. I admit that I didn’t see it coming.

Yellow Journalism Newspapers raced to publish more visually exciting and sensational stories. Joseph Pulitzer, editor of New York's ...

But Yellow Journalism was much more than a comic strip. According to an article authored by the U.S. State Department , “Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized ...

You don’t need me to describe the ill effects of a world where viewers can’t distinguish Walter Cronkite from Alex Jones, but here we are. I admit that I didn’t see it coming.

You don’t need me to describe the ill effects of a world where viewers can’t distinguish Walter Cronkite from Alex Jones, but here we are. I admit that I didn’t see it coming.