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1. Yellow Journalism is a biased opinion masquerading an objective fact. It involves sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting the public opinion.

2. The first event in american history that was covered by yellow journalism was the industrial revolution. During this time the newspaper industry was able to access machines that could easily print thousands of papers in a single night.

3. The remedy to yellow journalism is double-checking your sources and reading between the lines. Also, disregard marketing techniques used to hook readers.

4. The term Muckracking is used to describe someone or something that seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public in order to influence social change.

5. The U.S. President that invented the term "Muck-Rake" was President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech on April 14, 1906.

6. Two targets for muckraking journalists in the early 20th century were American Public Life and Corporate America.

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8. A current event example of Muckraking is the "Climategate's Hacked e-mails." This is an example of Muckraking because the journalist is trying to expose the "CLIMATEGATE SCANDAL." The climategate scandal was uncovered when thousands of e-mails were hacked from a climate research unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. The e-mails were proved genuine and contained information proving attempts to manipulate and hide data that downplayed global warming. This journalist is trying to change how people look at the "GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE" and prove that the government has been lying to us. []