Yellow journalism

In 1899, the newsboys of New York rose up against the high prices for 100 papers from the Pulitzer’s paper, “The World” and Hearst’s “The Journal”. Many years later, the musical Newsies came out. During the Spanish-American War the price of papers rose from 50 cents to 60 cents per 100 papers (Li, Extra, Extra, read all about the newsboys strike of 1899). What made them strike was when the rest of the newspaper prices went back down to 50 cents; Pulitzers and Hearst’s did not. In the musical it is depicted that Pulitzer, looking for a way to make more than Hearst, raised the prices. What actually happened was Pulitzer didn’t lower the prices back down. Because the prices were not lowered, the newsies decided to boycott which turned into a two-week strike. The musical portrayed the life of a newsboy accurately, most of them slept on the streets, or together in lodges (Barry, Read All About It! Kids Vex Titans!). The newsies were shown sleeping on metal beds in one room, then getting up and bathing in a bucket of cold water, putting on their only shirt and running out the door, often with no food. Although the main characters of “Newsies” were not real people, many of the people they mentioned were. Kid Blink, a minor character in the play was a very important figure in the real strike. Crutchy Morris, Racetrack Higgins, and Spot Conlon were all real newsboys (Pirnie, Newsies). This movie showed how many children really were in the late 1800s dirty, poor, and working. Also,…

Both Rupert Murdock and Alfred Harmsworth were known to be prodigious journalists in Great Britain. However, Rupert Murdoch was seen to be an immoral baron who wrecked the atmosphere of London’s journalism centre, on Fleet Street. Whereas, Alfred Harmsworth became known for his notion that popular media empires were very much reliant on expansion and evolution. He later became known as Lord Northcliffe. In the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a mass circulation of popular press.…

Joseph Campbell is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C and has a Ph.D. in mass communication. He has also received the Society of Professional Journalists’ national award. His books about yellow journalism are mainly to “debunk” the myths that are historically widely believed by most historians and students. These books are very valuable to those who study journalism because of their ability to go against the popular notion and question the myths…

The news media’s shift from public and political issues to the hot topics of “gossip, crime, and sex” is expertly analyzed in Dr. William R. Davie’s article “Crime and Passion: Journalism for the Masses?.” Davie cites the term “yellow journalism,” coined from Tabloid Tales: Global Debates over Media Standards authors Sparks and Tulloch, to describe the sensationalistic form of news that was popularized in the late 1800s. The sensational tabloids in Britain share the same space as many…

this case, journalism has operated in the favor of politicians in the 18th and 19th century. With the invention of the printing press the appearance of the newspaper allowed information and news to be circulated and spread throughout the masses. The invention of the newspaper brought us the concept of the partisan press, this refers to when news papers and other forms of media are biased in favor to one party, cause or political figure. There…

Bailey Gillen Robert Whitley History 132-620 12 June, 2017 Primary Document Review: Yellow Journalism: Sinking of the Battleship Maine Yellow journalism helps the media control politics in the United States. By avoiding crucial facts and isolating information that they want, the media can use this journalism tactic to skew the public’s perception of reality. As messed up as this seems, it also falls as the duty of citizens to be careful of what news they believe when they are searching for…

over emotion (Adam, 1978; Carroll, 1989; Davie & Lee, 1995; Scott & Gobetz, 1992; Slattery & Hakanen, 1994). The gap between editors’ news judgment and receiver’s interest has been noticeable in the history of news production. The news editors least cared or understood their audiences’ demand for various kinds of news content Lowrey (2009). The news editors focus on what interests them would interest their audience instead of paying attention to what their audiences may be concerned with (Gans…

Rake the Muck What is Muck Throughout history there have always been events that caused an uprising from the people. During the Progressive Era these events included yellow journalism. Yellow journalism is defined as a type of reporting that includes obscene exaggeration. The journalists responsible for yellow journalism are muckrakers. This term was coined by Theodore Roosevelt and can be described as journalists that focus on the ‘muck’, or bad parts, of society and publish it so the public is…

three newspapers prevailed and it was the New York Times. There were many reasons why the Times prevailed and the others failed. According to the excerpt, "The Year That defined American Journalism" it quotes, "… the Times offered a detached, impartial, fact-based paradigm that embraced the innovative technologies emergent in the late nineteenth century but eschewed extravagance, prurience, and flamboyance in presenting the news," (Campbell, 90). Furthermore, in the excerpt, it said that…

"The story of 3 women and 105 men", can you imagine this is actually refers to one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature "Water Margin"? When you read the headline, you will subconscious think that headline regarding to a yellow journalism and may generate curiosity to read more content, after you click on it, whereas it is actually a historical story about 108 heroes. This is called “clickbait”, which attract click-through rate by writing sensationalist headlines that…