Further Antedating of "Yellow Journalism"

[Fred Shapiro]

yellow journalism (OED 1898)

1897 _Dallas Morning News_ 22 Feb. 4 (America's Historical Newspapers)
Here, for instance, are the two representatives of what our neighbor, the
New York Press, so felicitously calls "yellow journalism."

Fred Shapiro


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