The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power

The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power
ISBN-10
0810123312
ISBN-13
9780810123311
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Author
David Ralph Spencer

Description

"Most notable among Hearst's competitors was The World, owned and managed by a Jewish immigrant named Joseph Pulitzer. In The Yellow Journalism, David R. Spencer describes how the evolving culture of Victorian journalism was shaped by the Yellow Press. He details how these two papers and others exploited scandal, corruption, and crime among New York's most influential citizens and its most desperate inhabitants - a policy that made this "journalism of action" remarkably effective, not just as a commercial force but also as an advocate for the city's poor and defenseless."--BOOK JACKET.

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