yellow press
nounEtymology
From the comic feature "The Yellow Kid" in the Journal newspaper, first published in 1895.
Definitions
Newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober…
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.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for yellow press. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA