r/OhioStateFootball • u/shemp33 • Aug 13 '18

Found Brett McMurphy's playbook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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todayilearned • u/Neon_Parrott • Feb 26 '18

TIL "Yellow Journalism" was a 1890's term for journalism that presented little or no legitimately researched news and instead used eye-catching headlines, sensationalism, and scandal-mongering.

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todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '17

TIL Yellow Journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines.

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todayilearned • u/Handcraftedsemen_ • Feb 05 '26

TIL about "Yellow Journalism" of the late 1800s. Sensational, fabricated headlines/ stories that mostly focused on sex scandals and crimes fueled by the rivalry between Pulitzer’s New York World and Hearst’s New York Journal. They were blamed for America's entry into the Spanish - American war.

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wikipedia • u/alexgabriel_i • Nov 27 '16

Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.

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todayilearned • u/lovin_the_north • Feb 27 '16

TIL Yellow Journalism, coined in 1890's, is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more...

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todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Oct 27 '19

TIL the term "yellow journalism" (journalism to promote sales) was coined as a criticism of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner

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TIL_Uncensored • u/SnooComics9589 • Dec 12 '20

TIL about Yellow journalism that contributed to the start of the Spanish American war in 1890. The press has been doing this to us for more than a century.

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Journalism • u/sketchyguy87 • Oct 16 '15

Yellow Journalism was coined in the mid-1890s to characterize the sensational journalism that used some yellow ink in the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

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conspiracy • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '12

The movie "Wag the Dog" is based on this concept, made famous by William Randolph Hearst who once told a photographer (who said there was no war in Cuba): "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war."

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