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| yel·low jour·nal·ism |
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sensationalist news reporting: a style of journalism that makes unscrupulous use of scandalous, lurid, or sensationalized stories to attract readers. See also yellow press
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| [Late 19th century. After the Yellow Kid cartoons, in yellow ink, in the sensationalistic New York World] |
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