Sunday, September 7, 2008

Yellow journalism

Practiced among print medias, stories that were exaggerated, mislead and manipulated to gain popularity, increase newspaper sales and exiting public opinions.

It all started, with rapid industrialization that was happening all around the world. The Industrial Revolution eventually affected the newspaper industry, allowing newspapers access to machines that could easily print thousands of papers in a single night. This is believed to have brought into play one of the most important characteristics of yellow journalism - the endless drive for circulation. And unfortunately, the publisher's greed was very often put before ethics.

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