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☆ yellow journalism

the use of cheaply sensational or unscrupulous methods in newspapers, etc. to attract or influence readers

Etymology: < the use of yellow ink, to attract readers, in printing the “Yellow Kid,” a comic strip, in the New York World (1895)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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