Synonyms for yellow press

Grammar : Noun

Spell : yel-oh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈyɛl oʊ

Définition of yellow press

Origin : "sensational chauvinism in the media," 1898, American English, from newspaper agitation for war with Spain; originally "publicity stunt use of colored ink" (1895) in reference to the popular Yellow Kid" character (his clothes were yellow) in Richard Outcault's comic strip "Shantytown" in the "New York World."

As in yellow journalism : noun shock reporting

Example sentences :

For good or evil, America has the sole claim to the invention of the Yellow Press.
Extract from : « American Sketches » by Charles Whibley

It is not from such a tradition as that, that the Yellow Press emerged.
Extract from : « American Sketches » by Charles Whibley

The Yellow Press is not obscene—it has not the courage for that.
Extract from : « American Sketches » by Charles Whibley

When they read they have the Yellow Press and the literature of crime.
Extract from : « Not Guilty » by Robert Blatchford

The yellow press surpassed themselves in clamor and mendacity.
Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt » by Theodore Roosevelt

"More food for the yellow press," he said, with a harsh laugh.
Extract from : « That Affair at Elizabeth » by Burton E. Stevenson

Some of this interest is fictitious and stimulated merely by the yellow press, but a great deal of it is genuine.
Extract from : « Courts and Criminals » by Arthur Train

The Yellow Press is bad journalism: and wishes to stop the appearance of good journalism.
Extract from : « Utopia of Usurers and other Essays » by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

When so many of them write memoirs for the Yellow Press this is a little convenience which will be much appreciated.
Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, January 27, 1915 » by Various

It is, I understand, an example of protective colouring, designed to ward off the attacks of the Yellow Press.
Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 » by Various

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