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In reply to the discussion: Indiana middle schooler returns to class with 2 guns, shoots peer, teacher [View all]raven mad
(4,940 posts)32. Wow. Saving.
I very rarely turn on the television and since we haven't got cable, it's usually Public TV. The MSM hasn't changed much since "yellow journalism" days of the late 19th century.
Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines, leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States.
Example of Yellow Journalism in the cover of the Pulitzers World
The term originated in the competition over the New York City newspaper market between major newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. At first, yellow journalism had nothing to do with reporting, but instead derived from a popular cartoon strip about life in New Yorks slums called Hogans Alley, drawn by Richard F. Outcault. Published in color by Pulitzers New York World, the comics most well-known character came to be known as the Yellow Kid, and his popularity accounted in no small part for a tremendous increase in sales of the World. In 1896, in an effort to boost sales of his New York Journal, Hearst hired Outcault away from Pulitzer, launching a fierce bidding war between the two publishers over the cartoonist. Hearst ultimately won this battle, but Pulitzer refused to give in and hired a new cartoonist to continue drawing the cartoon for his paper. This battle over the Yellow Kid and a greater market share gave rise to the term yellow journalism.
Once the term had been coined, it extended to the sensationalist style employed by the two publishers in their profit-driven coverage of world events, particularly developments in Cuba. Cuba had long been a Spanish colony and the revolutionary movement, which had been simmering on and off there for much of the 19th century, intensified during the 1890s. Many in the United States called upon Spain to withdraw from the island, and some even gave material support to the Cuban revolutionaries. Hearst and Pulitzer devoted more and more attention to the Cuban struggle for independence, at times accentuating the harshness of Spanish rule or the nobility of the revolutionaries, and occasionally printing rousing stories that proved to be false. This sort of coverage, complete with bold headlines and creative drawings of events, sold a lot of papers for both publishers.
The peak of yellow journalism, in terms of both intensity and influence, came in early 1898, when a U.S. battleship, the Maine, sunk in Havana harbor. The naval vessel had been sent there not long before in a display of U.S. power and, in conjunction with the planned visit of a Spanish ship to New York, an effort to defuse growing tensions between the United States and Spain. On the night of February 15, an explosion tore through the ships hull, and the Maine went down. Sober observers and an initial report by the colonial government of Cuba concluded that the explosion had occurred on board, but Hearst and Pulitzer, who had for several years been selling papers by fanning anti-Spanish public opinion in the United States, published rumors of plots to sink the ship. When a U.S. naval investigation later stated that the explosion had come from a mine in the harbor, the proponents of yellow journalism seized upon it and called for war. By early May, the Spanish-American War had begun.
Example of Yellow Journalism in the cover of the Pulitzers World
The term originated in the competition over the New York City newspaper market between major newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. At first, yellow journalism had nothing to do with reporting, but instead derived from a popular cartoon strip about life in New Yorks slums called Hogans Alley, drawn by Richard F. Outcault. Published in color by Pulitzers New York World, the comics most well-known character came to be known as the Yellow Kid, and his popularity accounted in no small part for a tremendous increase in sales of the World. In 1896, in an effort to boost sales of his New York Journal, Hearst hired Outcault away from Pulitzer, launching a fierce bidding war between the two publishers over the cartoonist. Hearst ultimately won this battle, but Pulitzer refused to give in and hired a new cartoonist to continue drawing the cartoon for his paper. This battle over the Yellow Kid and a greater market share gave rise to the term yellow journalism.
Once the term had been coined, it extended to the sensationalist style employed by the two publishers in their profit-driven coverage of world events, particularly developments in Cuba. Cuba had long been a Spanish colony and the revolutionary movement, which had been simmering on and off there for much of the 19th century, intensified during the 1890s. Many in the United States called upon Spain to withdraw from the island, and some even gave material support to the Cuban revolutionaries. Hearst and Pulitzer devoted more and more attention to the Cuban struggle for independence, at times accentuating the harshness of Spanish rule or the nobility of the revolutionaries, and occasionally printing rousing stories that proved to be false. This sort of coverage, complete with bold headlines and creative drawings of events, sold a lot of papers for both publishers.
The peak of yellow journalism, in terms of both intensity and influence, came in early 1898, when a U.S. battleship, the Maine, sunk in Havana harbor. The naval vessel had been sent there not long before in a display of U.S. power and, in conjunction with the planned visit of a Spanish ship to New York, an effort to defuse growing tensions between the United States and Spain. On the night of February 15, an explosion tore through the ships hull, and the Maine went down. Sober observers and an initial report by the colonial government of Cuba concluded that the explosion had occurred on board, but Hearst and Pulitzer, who had for several years been selling papers by fanning anti-Spanish public opinion in the United States, published rumors of plots to sink the ship. When a U.S. naval investigation later stated that the explosion had come from a mine in the harbor, the proponents of yellow journalism seized upon it and called for war. By early May, the Spanish-American War had begun.
I've known a lot of reporters and editors. They are, for the most part, not geared for this. It's the money guys that are. The newspaper/magazine/tv etc. chains that "have to earn for the stockholders". I think I may become a hermit.
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Indiana middle schooler returns to class with 2 guns, shoots peer, teacher [View all]
Civic Justice
May 2018
OP
Are you suggesting that all white school shooters should be shot on sight by the police
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2018
#1
That's how the system "SHOULD WORK", but tell that to the people shot for a busted tail light
Civic Justice
May 2018
#4
I bet you'd change your mind if they were shooting up YOUR kids in a school....
Civic Justice
May 2018
#6
I hope you take this VOCAL position the next time the police pull their guns on unarmed black people
Civic Justice
May 2018
#10
+1000 When when we call for the summary execution of children, we lose our humanity.
Demsrule86
May 2018
#28
I believe in the merits of Justice, but a Mass Killer of Others, fits a whole different spectrum
Civic Justice
May 2018
#33
So who decides what murders rise to the level where summary justice by cop is justified?
Demsrule86
May 2018
#39
Nobody said Murder was right, the discussion is about "those who kill kids in school".
Civic Justice
May 2018
#41
Tell that to the Cities that have let police off the hook for killing UNARMED black people... !!!!
Civic Justice
May 2018
#42
Police should not be jury and executioner regardless of race...two wrongs never
Demsrule86
May 2018
#25
What you describe is not justice but vengeance. There is a difference you know.
Demsrule86
May 2018
#31
Why do you think the problem of black people getting shot by police
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2018
#12
Miss the point all you want; you either understand whats written or you don't
Civic Justice
May 2018
#16
whom ever "that one" is... does not have to submit to anyone's opinion...
Civic Justice
May 2018
#43
I don't believe in execution in any form. I will merely say...you are wrong and should delete this
Demsrule86
May 2018
#27
Advocating the shooting of a 13 year old by law enforcement is wrong and should not be posted here.
Demsrule86
May 2018
#38
Either get Perspective and Context of the conversation of go to another post...
Civic Justice
May 2018
#40
You are behaving in a very rude fashion...I can reply to any post I choose in a respectful manner...
Demsrule86
May 2018
#45
why didn't you get that message to the police who shot the kid at the park a year or so ago...
Civic Justice
May 2018
#17
Which isn't particularly relevant to police shootings given police didn't kill Till.
mythology
May 2018
#20
The police didn't do anything about it either.... the men who killed him went free...
Civic Justice
May 2018
#26
The Gulf of Tonkin comes to mind... resulting in the death of MILLIONS....
Civic Justice
May 2018
#34