The Birth of Yellow Journalism in the 1890s
Hearst and Pulitzer Presaged Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson
The 24-hour news cycle — intense competition between cable television networks and online outlets for public attention — has led to a burgeoning “angertainment” industry — so-called news packaged in ways to generate outrage and division rather than insight.
This isn’t the first time this has happened. More than 100 years ago, in the 1890s, intense compe…
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