As we all may have heard, the New York Times published a survey, detailing Americans’ declining faith in the Supreme Court. The story was also picked up by the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and a number of other papers. And yet, the Huffington Post, as is its nature, insists on publishing obscenely large pictures and headlines to advertise relatively insignificant – or more specifically, predictable – events. They have to stop partying like it’s 1899, er, ’98.
For more info, hit up the link to WIkipedia, which lists the first two tenets of Yellow Journalism as, “scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news, [and] lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings.”
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