Yellow Journalism and the Hearst Newspaper

The writings of William Randolph Hearst's newspaper The New York Journal had a profound effect on the American public during the era of Yellow Journalism. From 1895, when Hearst first purchased the paper, to 1966, the year of the Journal's last printing, scandalous articles about everything from the War with Spain to American politics would leave many spellbound and, at the same time, hungry for more. Most often, these writings published in the Journal were exaggerated and …

…that 67% of people who watched Fox News as their primary news source believed that the United States has found evidence that the leaders of Iraq were linked to the terrorist group al-Qaeda. That is much in comparison to the 16% of people who claimed PBS and NPR to be their source of current events. As it was in the days of Hearst's Journal, the news media today is still used to win over the public's opinions.