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yellow journalism YE-lo JUR-nuhl-i-zuhm noun a journalistic style that emphasizes sensationalism over facts and evidence 1908Bushido: The Soul of JapanChauvinistic tendencies of the time, and therefore thought well-adapted to the need of this day, have been invented and propounded; but as yet we hear only their shrill voices echoing through the columns of yellow journalism.1941Citizen KaneHere follows a quick montage (presently to be worked out) of no more than four or five images in which the President, by means of cartoons, editorials, headlines (all faithfully reproduced from period yellow journalism) is violently attacked.Labels: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Inazo Nitob, Orson Welles
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