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=Yellow Journalism & Muckraking=

1) Yellow Journalism is a biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. The practice of yellow journalism involved sensationalism and distorted stories. 2) The Industrial Revolution affected the newspaper industry, which allowed newspapers access to machines that could more easily print thousands of papers in one night. This is believed to have brought one of the most important characters of yellow journalism into play. 3) Remedy to yellow journalism is double and triple-checking one's sources and reading between the lines. 4) A muckraker tries to expose corruption of business or government to the public. 5) The term "muckraker" was first used in a speech by President Theodore Roosevelt. 6) Two targets of muckraking journalists in the early 20th century were Lincoln Steffens published "Tweed Days in St. Louis," were he profiled corrupt leaders in St. Louis in MnClure's Magazine. And Upton Sinckair published __The Jungle__ which revealed conditions in the meat packing industry in the United Sates and was a big factor in the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act. 7)