Meaning of yellow journalism | Babel Free

Definitions

Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.

idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: tabloidism”

“It is the sort⟳ of paper which the father of the family is expected to take⟳ home with him from his office and read⟳ aloud to the chicks before bed-time. It was founded by its proprietor, Mr. Benjamin White, as an antidote to yellow journalism.”

“In the heyday of yellow journalism, newspapers like⟳ Joseph Pulitzer’s World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal sent out squads of reporters to hunt down leads and, if evidence failed to materialize, make⟳ up stories.”

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