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1. Yellow journalism is a biased or corrupted point of view that is written as fact.

2. Yellow journalism began to show up during the Industrial Revolution, beginning in the “New York World” and “New York Journal”. The term “yellow journalism” originated from a comic strip called “the yellow kid”.

3. The solution to yellow journalism is to simply read carefully and check the source of a document. Just know that an article may be swayed to support someone’s opinion and try to figure out what that opinion is.

4. A muckraker is someone is who tries to expose a corrupt or biased business or government action.

5. The president to come up with the term “Muck-Rake” was Theodore Roosevelt.

6. Muckrakers have tried to expose the corruptions of oil companies who have abused the trust of people and cheap meat packing labor plants that have enforced harsh labor laws.

7. An article from CNN.com, “With Afghan Surge, Obama Resembles George W. Bush” basically says that Obama is reasserting “The Bush Doctrine” because he is sending a surge of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. This is a matter of opinion, not fact.

8. “Feds: 32 Charged With Medicare Fraud”. This article, from CNN.com is about how there were some federal agents who formed five rings of fraud, filing more than $61 million in false claims. This is an example of muckraking because they have uncovered corruption and reported the truth. The author of this article wants the government to step up their enforcement of laws and surveillance of personnel.