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1) __Yellow Journalism__-is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. ex: distorted stories and misleading images to excite the public. 2) It all started with a cartoon comic called "The Yellow Kid" and from there free press was allowed and other kinds of newspapers started to come out. 3) The remedy is simply double- and triple-checking one's sources and reading between the lines 4) __Muckracker__- seeks to expose corruption of business or government to the public. 5) Muckracker was first used used on one of Teddy Roosevelt's speech. 6) Some 20th century muckracker journalists were Lincoln Steffens who published "Tweed Days in St. Louis", and Ida Tarbell who published The Rise of the Standard Oil Company. 7) A story from CNN.com says that U.S. and its troops should not be in Afghanistan. The Article talks about how we are wasting to much time and resources where we could be spending it in airports, increase intelligence gathering and infiltrate terrorist cells. How this relates to yellow journalism is because its a straight up opinion on the fact that we should not be over in the Middle-East and should be using the money for more other important things.  8) 800,000 H1N1 vaccines were recalled back due that they are not as potent as they should be. CDC said that there is no danger for any child who receives this disease, but the order was not as potent, only half the dosage it should have been. This is an example of muchracking because the H1N1 had a corruption due to the dosage being to small for the children who were suppose to get it.