Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism is a form of journalism that exploits and exaggerates the news stories in order to attract the readers and make a bigger profit.
This term came around in the 1890’s mainly as a way to describe the New York World as well as The New York Journal, papers that were exploiting the Spanish-American War.
In 1883 The World sent reporters to speak with local immigrants during an excruciating heat wave. From this, headlines such as “How babies are Baked” and “Lines of little hearses” were seen in some of the World's issues. Because of this exaggeration and the ongoing focus on crime and the imperfections of the city, the World circulation increased dramatically, and after only two years the World became the highest circulation paper in New York, helped in part by yellow journalism
Hear
st is nicknamed the “father of Yellow journalism” for his articles enticing the war in Spain. He did this by printing scores of articles about the situation in Cuba and he also ran several articles blaming the Spanish for the sinking of the MAINE. This helped the sale of papers because people wanted to hear what they thought was the truth. Since the papers were printing things that were not so positive, the public was eager to read it because it was something othere than what the government was telling them. Hearst, as well as other publishers of the major newspapers were helping shape the minds and opinions about the war, this was one of the big affects that yellow journalism had on society.
Yellow journalism got its name from a comic stripe called the “yellow Kid”. R.F. Outcault created the comic strip “the yellow kid” which Pulitzer and Hearst fought over having in their newspaper. Oucault stopped working for Pulitzer and began working for Hearst in October of 1896. For a further look into the creation and history of “The Yellow Kid” you can visit this website.
This term came around in the 1890’s mainly as a way to describe the New York World as well as The New York Journal, papers that were exploiting the Spanish-American War.
In 1883 The World sent reporters to speak with local immigrants during an excruciating heat wave. From this, headlines such as “How babies are Baked” and “Lines of little hearses” were seen in some of the World's issues. Because of this exaggeration and the ongoing focus on crime and the imperfections of the city, the World circulation increased dramatically, and after only two years the World became the highest circulation paper in New York, helped in part by yellow journalism
Hear
st is nicknamed the “father of Yellow journalism” for his articles enticing the war in Spain. He did this by printing scores of articles about the situation in Cuba and he also ran several articles blaming the Spanish for the sinking of the MAINE. This helped the sale of papers because people wanted to hear what they thought was the truth. Since the papers were printing things that were not so positive, the public was eager to read it because it was something othere than what the government was telling them. Hearst, as well as other publishers of the major newspapers were helping shape the minds and opinions about the war, this was one of the big affects that yellow journalism had on society.
Yellow journalism got its name from a comic stripe called the “yellow Kid”. R.F. Outcault created the comic strip “the yellow kid” which Pulitzer and Hearst fought over having in their newspaper. Oucault stopped working for Pulitzer and began working for Hearst in October of 1896. For a further look into the creation and history of “The Yellow Kid” you can visit this website.
For a more indepth reading on yellow journalism you can visit this website.
