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media type="custom" key="4488822" There are great pictures... but that was only half of the assignment!!! 1) Define what is meant by the term YELLOW JOURNALISM. 2) What event in American history did the print media first use YELLOW JOURNALISM ? 3) What is a potential remedy to YELLOW JOURNALISM? 4) What is meant by the term MUCKRAKING? 5) What U.S. President actually created the term "MUCK-RAKE?" 6) What were two targets of MUCKRAKING journalists in the early 20th century? 7) Recognizing what YELLOW JOURNALISM is, find a current event story from an internet source and describe in 3-4 sentences of how it is an example of this type of journalism. How is the story being stretched or sensationalized? Note after your summary the website you found your story on. 8) Recognizing what MUCKRAKING is, find a current event story from an internet source and describe in 3-4 sentences of how it is an example of this type of journalism. Think of the following, what issue is being exposed? What change is desired by the journalist? Note after your summary the website you found your story on.

1) Yellow journalism is a bias opinion used by journalists especially in things such as news papers. News papers would use yellow journalism by using things like misleading images and distorted stories to boost the sales of the news paper company. 2) The event in American history that the print media first used yellow journalism is when the New York Journal came out with cartoons giving the name Yellow Journalism from the yellow ink used in the cartoons, these cartoons used a lot of satire and false things. 3)Double and triple checking ones sources and reading between the line. News papers may be reliable if one disregards the obvious marketing that is used to hook readers. 4) A Muckraking person is a person who seeks to expose corruption of business or government to the public. 5)The tern muckraker was first used in 1906 by President Theodore Rosevelt. 6) "The Jungle" that revealed conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States. And the "Pure food and Drug act" published as a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine in February, 1906, described corruption in the U.S. Senate. 7)