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ISBN10: 0275981134, ISBN13: 9780275981136, [publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated] Softcover pp. 240
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]

Praeger Pub Text, Date: 2003. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2003. Praeger Pub Text ISBN 0275981134 9780275981136 [GB]

ISBN10: 0275981134, ISBN13: 9780275981136, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Softcover Paperback. This offers a detailed and long-awaited reassessment of one of the most maligned periods in American journalismthe era of the yellow press. The study challenges and dismantles several prominent myths about the genre, finding that the yellow press did not fomentcould not have fomentedthe Spanish-American War in 1898, contrary to the arguments of many media historians. The study presents extensive evidence showing that the famous exchange of telegrams between the artist Frederic Remington and newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearstin which Hearst is said to have vowed to furnish the war with Spainalmost certainly never took place. The study also presents the results of a systematic content analysis of seven leading U. S. newspapers at 10 year intervals throughout the 20th century and finds that some distinguishing features of the yellow press live on in American journalism.The yellow press period in American journalism history has produced many powerful and enduring myths-almost none of them true. This study explores these legends, presenting extensive evidence that: The yellow press did not foment-could not have fomented-the Spanish-American War in 1898, contrary of the arguments of many media historians The famous exchange of telegrams between the artist Frederic Remington and newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst-in which Hearst is said to have ...