yellow press
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What’s astonishing about Prendergast’s research is that it uncovered wilder stories that the yellow press missed — including a fistfight that broke out during French’s memorial service.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021
Since the printing press we have had a yellow press focussed on sensation instead of real news.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016
Bayern have, at various times, felt like the gift that keeps giving to the nation's yellow press and a glance at six degrees of scandalous separation illustrates the point.
From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2013
Essentially yellow press reporting based on anecdotes that thousands of you regurgitate on a daily basis.
From Economist • Nov. 27, 2012
In the yellow press they now have their own champion,—a press that serves them, represents them, leads them, and exploits them, as Tammany Hall does its constituency.
From Commercialism and Journalism by Holt, Hamilton
