Yellow Journalism, What is it? Is it Still Here? And Who Do We Trust?
In an earlier post I pointed out that I am an “80's girl” so that tells you around what era I grew up in. I am sure that many readers may be older than I am and remember this era but I am just as sure that there will be younger readers who were not alive in that era. I point this era out because, at least in my opinion, it seemed or felt like the only real “sensational” journalism we saw were the tabloids that you saw at the registers at the grocery stores. They were considered to be the “trash” magazines. The National Enquirer was the big one. Most of their stories revolved around celebrities and their lives. Then there was The Sun, which at the time I did not realize was the name of a major newspaper in the UK, that showed the sensational stories like “half man/half woman found” (yes, I just made that title up). Magazines like People and Time were also located in that area but they were much more respectable than either of them are today. And while I obviously cannot te...