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1) Define what is meant by the term YELLOW JOURNALISM. Yellow Journalism is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. 2) What event in American history did the print media first use YELLOW JOURNALISM ? The Industrial Revolution was the start the most important characteristics of yellow journalism allowing newspapers access to machines that could easily print thousands of papers in a night. This end the endless drive for circulation. And greed was most of the time put over ethics. 3) What is a potential remedy to YELLOW JOURNALISM? Checking sources and reading between the lines. If people look past the marketing that is used to hook readers, newspapers may actually be a reliable sources of info. 4) What is meant by the term MUCKRAKING? Looking to expose something bad of businesses and goverment and people to the public. 5) What U.S. President actually created the term "MUCK-RAKE?" President Theodore Roosevelt 6) What were two targets of MUCKRAKING journalists in the early 20th century? The Treason of the Senate: Aldrich, the Head of it All, by David Graham Phillips, published as a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine in February, 1906, described corruption in the U.S. Senate. The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams revealed fraudulent claims and endorsements of patent medicines in America. 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. http://www.celebuzz.com/robert-pattinson-freaks-out-after-s163221/ Ok magazine creates eye popping hed line and tells a little bitte more then the truth in the article about Robert Pattinson. 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. McCain bad mouthing Obama.http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/mccain_obama_interviewed_by_field_stream/C41/L41/