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1. Yellow journalism was used to improve sales of newspaper and excite the people that read it. This was done by changing the story from what it really was. 2. Yellow journalism all started with cartoons. 3. A remedy was to double and triple-check one's sources and reading between the lines. 4. A muckraker seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public. 5. Theodore Roosevelt 6. Food and drug act, problems with oil, work strikes. 7. A good example of yellow journalism right now can come from the Tiger Woods scandle. The media is almost trying as hard as they can to take down Tiger and find out more and more stuff about him. When they find a new women that has admitted to his affairs they try to find out bad things about the women he slept with; for example, the pornstars. –found in nydailynews 8. The story of how toys are becoming a choking hazard to children is an example of muckraking. In the story they are talking all about how these toys are too small or even contain some poison in them. In this story people would clearly be drawn away from these products.