Yellow Journalism

In the mid 1890s, a style of journalism called ________________________ began that involved hoaxes, sensationalism, cheap melodrama, and frauds.

• muckraking

• yellow journalism

• false journalism

• photojournalism

What is the definition of yellow journalism?

• a style or reporting characterized by unprecedented sensationalism or over exaggeration.

• a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.

• a notice of a death, especially in a newspaper, typically including a brief biography of the deceased person.

Who are the two men that brought Yellow Journalism to the medium?

• Thomas Edison and Charles Darwin

• Bill Gates and Bill Clinton

• Joseph Pulitzer II and William Randolph Hearst

• Bambico and Cruz

Yellow Journalism is known for…?

• Proven Facts

• Sensational and Exaggeration

• Comics

• Advertisements

Hostility towards Spain increased as Americans were persuaded by _____________, which is a style of newspaper reporting that emphasizes sensational news.

• Muckraking

• Yellow Fever

• Yellow Journalism

• Wall Street Journal

Yellow journalism was used by newspapers in the 1890s to (a)  

• influence public opinion

• promote peace in Cuba

• overturn a presidential election

• support an isolationist foreign pol

How can yellow journalism become a problem?

• When it stories become to be manipulated and altered creating something that might be false

• When people start to make money

• When advertisements collect money

• When people lose their jobs

Having the tendency to rely on anonymous sources, particularly in dispatches of leading correspondents is part of yellow journalism. True or False?

• True

• False

This battle over the Yellow Kid and the greater market gave a rise to?

• Yellow Journalism

• Red Journalism

• Advertisements

• Comics

What were the two newspapers owned by the owners credited with yellow journalism?

• No one knows

• Joseph Thomas owned the New York World, and William Jordan owned the New York Journal

• Joseph Pulitzer owned the New York World, and William Hearst owned the New York Journal