Not a day goes by without hearing or reading news of yet another federal financial blunder: trillion dollar deficits, billions in bank bailouts, welfare for the wealthy, military industrial complex spending running amuck, etc. What you never hear about though, is the little guy, the grass roots non-profits going under because they can’t raise a [...]
A term coined by William Randolph Hearst in the late 1890’s, Yellow Journalism, also known as the Yellow Press, was the practice of sensationalizing “news” for the sake of increasing market share (selling more papers). The Yellow Press would employ tactics such as scandal mongering, exaggeration, misleading headlines, faked interviews, “gotcha” reporting(entrapment of interviewee) and [...]