Yellow Journalism By: Brenden Sams

What is yellow journalism?Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.

Continued The term originated during the American Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. 

Examples of Yellow Journalism Spanish American War - Yellow journalism helped to push Spain and the United States into war in 1898. The Maine, a US battleship, sunk from an explosion. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst published false articles about a plot to sink the ship, thereby increasing tensions. 

Continued Prime Minister called a traitor - ABC News reported that Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu called Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin a traitor; but, the report was false.

OJ Simpson - Live reporting of the chase and capture of Simpson sensationalized this tragic case after Simpson was accused of murdering his ex-wife.

Yellow Journalism in Tabloid Headlines Jesus Action Figure Heals the Sick Half of U.S. hookers are space aliens – and they don’t have sex

organs! Man makes $60,000 a year as human lawn jockey Nazi UFOs to Attack U.S. Snake with Human Head Found in Arkansas News Reporter Eaten Alive by 80-Ft Dinosaur Man’s Head Explodes in Barber’s Chair Is Your Cat from Mars? As you can see, yellow journalism attracts attention; but, it

typically doesn't have much substance.

Yellow Journalism-Spanish American War In regard to the situation in Cuba in the mid-1890s,

yellow journalism sought to exploit the atrocities in Cuba to sell more magazines and newspapers. The papers depicted Spanish behavior as exaggeratedly bad, and political cartoons depicted Spain as a nearly subhuman and brutal monster, while Cuba was usually depicted as a pretty white girl being pushed around by the Spanish monster. 

Sources http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-yellow-journalism.html

http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_journalism.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/spring04/vance/yellowjournalism.html