yellow press
nounEtymology From the comic feature "The Yellow Kid" in the Journal newspaper, first published in 1895.
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Collective, Idiomatic, Usually Newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.
- Near-synonyms: tabloids, gutter press
- The Olivette incident has often been cited as emblematic of the distortions published by Hearst and the rest of the yellow press during the Cuban revolution, but it seems to have been founded in an honest mistake.1986, G. J. A. O'Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic, page 82:
- Related terms
- yellow journalism, muckraking, tabloidism