What is "yellow journalism"?

a. it refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion.

b. it was a derogatory insult directed by many americans toward japanese journalists in the early twentieth century.

c. it refers to the "scared" journalists who filed their stories from key west, florida, during the spanish-american war.

d. it refers to the practice by many financially struggling newspapers of using recycled, yellowed newsprint during the 1890s depression.

e. it speaks to the use of propaganda in underground newspapers published by the cuban insurrectionists?

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Donovan Banks

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18 July, 11:58

What is "yellow journalism"?

a. it refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion.

b. it was a derogatory insult directed by many americans toward japanese journalists in the early twentieth century.

c. it refers to the "scared" journalists who filed their stories from key west, florida, during the spanish-american war.

d. it refers to the practice by many financially struggling newspapers of using recycled, yellowed newsprint during the 1890s depression.

e. it speaks to the use of propaganda in underground newspapers published by the cuban insurrectionists?

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Karissa Jennings · Answer 1

a. it refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion.

Yellow journalism is a practice that involved the use of eye catching headlines in order to increase the sales of newspapers. As opposed to doing research, it entails use of sensationalism