The what, who and how of our media has taken many different forms in our society as time and technology has progressed. In the last decade or so media has had its most significant changes to its inner and outer workings. From its conception media has been in the favor of the ruling class in this media in 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
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Yellow journalism is akin to what we call todays “fake news” originated by two major publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst during the 1980‘s. The highlight of yellow journalism shows itself in what historians and journalist alike call the “first war of journalism” up to the lead up of the Spanish-American war. During the 19th century Cuba who had long since been a Spanish colony was in a midst of a revolutionary war with the country of which intensified during the 1980’s. Those in the United States rallied in support of the Cuban revolutionaries and called for Spain to withdraw from Cuba. During this time “Hearst and Pulitzer devoted more and more attention to the Cuban struggle for independence, at times accentuating the harshness of Spanish rule or the nobility of the revolutionaries, and occasionally printing rousing stories that proved to be false. This sort of coverage, complete with bold headlines and creative drawings of events, sold a lot of papers for both publisher” (U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism. n.d.). …show more content…
Yellow Journalism shows itself today in forms of media such as tabloids such as the National enquire and star most likely to be seen on the shelves in super markets. In most cases of celebrity journalism the need and demand for stories that stretch and awe are prominent, stories centered around celebrity pregnancies or political figure scandals. These have been shown today to garner bigger audiences then hard news journalism, journalism that surrounds more serious news concerning politics or foreign
Yellow journalism is akin to what we call todays “fake news” originated by two major publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst during the 1980‘s. The highlight of yellow journalism shows itself in what historians and journalist alike call the “first war of journalism” up to the lead up of the Spanish-American war. During the 19th century Cuba who had long since been a Spanish colony was in a midst of a revolutionary war with the country of which intensified during the 1980’s. Those in the United States rallied in support of the Cuban revolutionaries and called for Spain to withdraw from Cuba. During this time “Hearst and Pulitzer devoted more and more attention to the Cuban struggle for independence, at times accentuating the harshness of Spanish rule or the nobility of the revolutionaries, and occasionally printing rousing stories that proved to be false. This sort of coverage, complete with bold headlines and creative drawings of events, sold a lot of papers for both publisher” (U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism. n.d.). …show more content…
Yellow Journalism shows itself today in forms of media such as tabloids such as the National enquire and star most likely to be seen on the shelves in super markets. In most cases of celebrity journalism the need and demand for stories that stretch and awe are prominent, stories centered around celebrity pregnancies or political figure scandals. These have been shown today to garner bigger audiences then hard news journalism, journalism that surrounds more serious news concerning politics or foreign