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1. Yellow journalism is biased opinion, distorting stories, and, misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion.

2. The term first started at the onset of the Industrial Revolution when it affected the newspapers, when they had access to machines that could print large amounts of papers in one night so they wanted a drive for circulation.

3. The remedy to yellow journalism is double and triple checking the sources and having a bigger understanding and seeing the "things between the lines".

4. A muckracker is someone who seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public.

5. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 first used the term in a speech.

6. Two examples of muckracking the 20th century: 1) Ray Stannard Baker published article called The Right to Work in McClure's magazine in 1903 which told about coal mine conditions and a coal strike and the non-striking workers. 2) David Graham Phillips in 1906 published articles about corruption in the US Senate in Cosmopolitan.

7. The article I chose for an example of yellow journalism is the article " 'Balloon boy' parents plead guilty". This article is about the parents of the six year old boy who was supposed to be in the escape balloon but in fact was in the attic pleading guilty with a deal. This article is yellow journalism because the balloon boy was a ruse for publicity and having false info just to get on news and having fifteen minutes of fame. CNN.com

8. The article I chose for an example of muckracking is MRSA Creeping Into Hospitals from Outside. The article is about strains of antiobiotic-resistant infections are showing up in hospitals infecting inpatients. The author is accusing the hospitals of exposing the patients of the hospital to life threatening illnesses. health.usnews.com

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