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Chapter 17. Yellow Journalism And the Spanish American War. Chapter 17. The “Yellow Kid” First successfully marketed comic character. Lived in “Hogan’s Alley”, a ghetto in New York City. Chapter 17. Chapter 17. Joseph Pulitzer Published the New York World
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Chapter 17 Yellow Journalism And the Spanish American War
Chapter 17 The “Yellow Kid” First successfully marketed comic character. Lived in “Hogan’s Alley”, a ghetto in New York City.
Chapter 17 Joseph Pulitzer Published the New York World Started as a muckraking reporter and worked his way up. Originally published the Yellow Kid comic.
Chapter 17 William Randolph Hearst Published the New York Journal Hired Yellow Kid artist away from Pulitzer. When his war correspondent, Frederick Remington told Hearst that all was quiet in Cuba, Hearst allegedly replied, “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”
Yellow Journalism known for: • Sensational or “scare” headlines • Use of photographs or drawings • Faked interviews and misleading information • Emphasis on full-color Sunday comics • Sympathy with the “underdog”