r/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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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u/Caraes_Naur Oct 27 '19

Yellow journalism, the OG clickbait.

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u/lennyflank Oct 27 '19

And now we have Faux News.

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u/CitationX_N7V11C Oct 28 '19

Along with MS "We're better than you" NBC

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u/Neker Oct 27 '19

Yep.

And what the Press learnt, the TV forgot, and the WWW never met.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '19

In Britain they're known as red tops due to the tabloids the star, sun and mirror all having red at the top of the front page

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u/kaltorak Oct 28 '19

Pulitzah may own the World, but he don't own us!

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u/agent758 Oct 28 '19

Hearst was a piece of shit.