tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12359982.post114851294875840895..comments2023-10-06T07:28:21.803-04:00Comments on Cuban-American Pundits: Essays from a Cuban-American Perspective: I bet you didn't know this...Val Prietohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15857729823069869008noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12359982.post-1153590077625573762006-07-22T13:41:00.000-04:002006-07-22T13:41:00.000-04:00Oops TruthSeeker, interesting name for someone try...Oops TruthSeeker, interesting name for someone trying to obfuscate, it's you who are mistaken. What part of the quoted definition from the same Britannica did you not undertstand? Yellow journalism is "the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation." And certainly the New Times is guilty of that.<BR/><BR/>I'm not going toHenry Louis Gomezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12359982.post-1153588846322458412006-07-22T13:20:00.000-04:002006-07-22T13:20:00.000-04:00Ooops, Conductor, you made a mistake. Look up Will...Ooops, Conductor, you made a mistake. <BR/><BR/>Look up William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in your encyclopedia and you will see that they originated the term "yellow journalism" when they were in a very jingoistic and sensationalist competition to get the USA to start a war with Spain and invade Cuba. Looks much more like <I>Fox News</I> than <I>Miami New Times</I> to say the least.<BRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12359982.post-1148608148167927072006-05-25T21:49:00.000-04:002006-05-25T21:49:00.000-04:00The definition of Yellow Journalism according to E...The definition of Yellow Journalism according to Encyclopaedia Britannica: In newspaper publishing, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation.<BR/><BR/>The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York papers, Joseph Pulitzer's World and William Randolph Henry Louis Gomezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03167391252653145914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12359982.post-1148566516086347942006-05-25T10:15:00.000-04:002006-05-25T10:15:00.000-04:00FYI - Progressive papers, by definition, are not "...FYI - Progressive papers, by definition, are not "pushers" of yellow journalism. Yellow journalism is the stain of outlets like Fox News and Radio Mambi: twist information into a form that escalates and incites irrational acts of ignorant aggressiveness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com