The Lucrezia Borgia of Journalism (1910) – William Randolph Hearst, wearing a bright yellow dress, as Lucrezia Borgia painting poison from pots labeled “Slander”, “Riot”, “Scandal ...

At the time, critics of these media evils called it “yellow journalism.” The term came from a popular cartoon character called the Yellow Kid, who appeared in a comic strip in the New York ...

Cartoons of former newspaper character The Yellow Kid, created by Randy Bish. Bish illustrated, and Chris Yambar wrote, the new comic book, “Hully Gee It’s the Yellow Kid.” ...

The term springs from a popular color cartoon (the Yellow Kid) published in the New York World in the late 1890s, but came to refer to a sensationalistic, profit-driven news approach.

Political cartoons mocked Joseph Pulitzer (left) and William Randolph Hearst (right) in 1898. ... who became the symbol of yellow journalism in the 1890s. Illustration by Bridgeman/ACI.

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Cartoon from the Denver Post, June 7, 1898. (Public domain) What impact did ‘yellow journalism’ have in pushing the United States to war? While there’s general agreement that the yellow ...

Back in 1898, newspapers were the major source of news in America. At that time it was common practice for a newspaper to report only the editor's opinion of the news rather than objective ...

“Yellow journalism” got its name from the Yellow Kid, a popular cartoon character drawn by Richard F. Outcault whose strip became the subject of a bidding war between Hearst and Pulitzer, the ...