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Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. This offers a detailed and long-awaited reassessment of one of the most maligned periods in American journalism -- the era of the yellow press. The study challenges and dismantles several prominent myths about the genre, finding that the yellow press did not foment -- could not have fomented -- the Spanish-American War in 1898, contrary to the arguments of many media historians. The study presents extensive evidence showing that...