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
No wonder the dime novels and yellow press of the day exaggerated the facts surrounding the western gangs and gunfighters: Too often those facts won’t stand on their own.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020
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
This theory, belittling as it did their pet sensation, did not suit the policy of the yellow press, so the learned professor at once became the target for editorial attack.
From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles
