yellow press
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No wonder the dime novels and yellow press of the day exaggerated the facts surrounding the western gangs and gunfighters: Too often those facts won’t stand on their own.
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2020
Even now, Salomatin says he's not convinced there has been any particular danger; most of the alarm, he says, is being spread by the "yellow press."
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2018
Bayern have, at various times, felt like the gift that keeps giving to the nation's yellow press and a glance at six degrees of scandalous separation illustrates the point.
From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2013
Essentially yellow press reporting based on anecdotes that thousands of you regurgitate on a daily basis.
From Economist • Nov. 27, 2012
I am about to conclude that our yellow press does us more harm abroad than at home, and many of the American correspondents of the English papers send exactly the wrong news.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Hendrick, Burton Jesse
