USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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What is sensational news reporting?

(A) Boxer Rebellion

(B) Russo-Japanese War

(C) ** Yellow Journalism

(D) Rough Riders

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Concept note-1: -yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York City newspapers, the World and the Journal.

Concept note-2: -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.

Concept note-3: -This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the truth of a story.

Concept note-4: -Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts.