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  2. Yellow journalism - Wikipedia

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    e. In journalism, yellow journalism and the yellow press are American newspapers that use eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales. The English term is chiefly used in the US. In the United Kingdom, a similar term is tabloid journalism. Other languages, e.g. Russian (Жёлтая пресса zhyoltaya pressa ...

  3. American propaganda of the Spanish–American War - Wikipedia

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    American newspapers ran stories of a sensationalist nature depicting atrocities, both fabricated and real, committed by the Spanish. These stories often reflected true stories such as thousands of Cubans had been displaced to the country side in concentration camps, as well as entirely fictional accounts of Spaniards feeding Cuban children to ...

  4. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    e. In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the ...

  5. The 10 biggest news stories of the year - AOL

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    If 2020 was a difficult year for most of the country, 2021 represented a reprieve - but mostly just because of the extremely low bar set by the previous year.The nation in 2020 was locked down by ...

  6. William Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia

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    William Randolph Hearst Sr. (/ hɜːrst /; [1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism in violation of ethics and standards influenced the nation's popular media ...

  7. Joseph Pulitzer - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Pulitzer (/ ˈpʊlɪtsər / PUUL-it-sər; [ 2 ][ a ] born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: [ˈpulit͡sɛr ˈjoːʒɛf]; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was ...

  8. Peaches Browning - Wikipedia

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    Edward West Browning. . . (m. 1926; died 1934) . Three husbands, all divorced. Peaches Browning (born Frances Belle Heenan; June 23, 1910 – August 23, 1956), was an American actress. [1] She was married to New York City real estate developer Edward West "Daddy" Browning (October 16, 1874 – October 12, 1934), when she was 15 and he was 51.

  9. News of the World - Wikipedia

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    newsoftheworld.co.uk. (inactive, no longer updated) The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [4]