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yellow journalism

YE-lo JUR-nuhl-i-zuhm

noun

a journalistic style that emphasizes sensationalism over facts and evidence

1908Inazo NitobBushido: 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.1941Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson WellesCitizen 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.

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eudemonistic

yoo-DEE-muh-nis-tik

adjective

having the characteristics of an ethical system that evaluates action in terms of the action's capacity to produce happiness

1908Inazo NitobBushido: The Soul of JapanI admit Bushido had its esoteric and exoteric teachings; these were eudemonistic, looking after the welfare and happiness of the commonalty, while those were aretaic, emphasizing the practice of virtues for their own sake.1914Durant DrakeProblems of ConductIf any eudemonistic moralists have lived loosely, it was because they did not realize what really makes for happiness or had not strength of will to cleave to it, not because they saw happiness as the criterion.

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