Yellow Journalism
By Cleveland Ferguson III
Yellow journalism usually refers to sensationalistic or biased stories that newspapers present as objective truth.
Established, late 19th-century journalists coined the term to belittle the unconventional techniques of their rivals. Although Eric Burns (2006) demonstrated that the press i
n early America could be quite raucous, yellow journalism is generally perceived to be a late 1800s phenomenon full of lore and spin, fact and fiction, tall tales, and large personalities.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1253/yellow-journalism
