yellow journalism en · NOUN
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Etymology
From the comic The Yellow Kid, published in tabloid newspapers.
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(idiomatic, uncountable) Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.
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.
1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Psmith, Journalist: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.
2007 October 24, William Grimes, “Murder by Mail in Gilded Age New York”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Jul 2008:
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fr jaunisme (sensationalistic journalism) · pl yellow journalism (sensationalistic journalism) · cmn 黃色新聞 /黄色新闻 (sensationalistic journalism) · id koran kuning (sensationalistic journalism) · ar صَحَافَة الصَّفْرَاء (sensationalistic journalism) · hi पीली पत्रकारिता (sensationalistic journalism) · fi keltainen journalismi (sensationalistic journalism) · ko 황색언론 (sensationalistic journalism) · ar صَحَافَة الفَاضِحَة (sensationalistic journalism) · ka ბულვარული ჟურნალისტიკა (sensationalistic journalism) · ka ყვითელი ჟურნალისტიკა (sensationalistic journalism) · de Boulevardjournalismus (sensationalistic journalism)