Posted: 2/25/2017 12:55:08 PM EDT
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Yellow journalism or the yellow press is a type of journalism that does not report much real news with facts. It uses shocking headlines that catch people's attention to sell more newspapers. Yellow journalism might include exaggerating facts or spreading rumors.
Yellow press newspapers have several columns and front-page headlines about different types of news, such as sports and scandals. They use bold layouts (with large illustrations and perhaps color), and stories reported using unnamed sources. The term was often used to talk about some large New York City newspapers around 1900 as they fought to get more readers than the other newspapers. In 1941, Frank Mott said that there were five things that made up yellow journalism: 1. headlines in huge print that were meant to scare people, often of news that wasn't very important 2. using many pictures or drawings 3. using fake interviews, headlines that didn't tell the whole truth, pseudoscience (fake science), and false information from people who said they were experts 4. full-color parts of the newspaper on Sundays, usually with comic strips (which is now normal in the United States) 5. taking the side of the "underdog" against the system. What's old is new again. http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/spanishamerican/section2.rhtml link to the origional wiki quote https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism This weirds me out because I have recently become profoundly aware of how many people, rather educated doctors, engineers, etc. that should be able to.. should by nature, be questioning and verifying all input. Yet without a second thought will walk into a fire because they are told, "go that way". Not even philosophical or political issues, simple facts of material availability. They would keep making things complicated by insisting a certain line was only available in 54' lengths. I printed up the product from Granger (two blocks away) and showed that it comes standard in 50' and 100' lengths. After much head banging just to get them to read what I was holding in front of their face, they defaulted to "our field guy says it only comes in 54' lengths"  Finally got him to acknowledge what was sold withing walking distance and a spark of engineering came though. "There would be too much head loss with the longer run." Okay, what pressure and flow rate do you need to maintain? "35psi" At what rate? "static" If static, can get you that with a million miles of line, no problem. "But there is flow." Okay, what pressure and flow rate do you need to maintain? "35psi".. and repeat till I walked away in dismay. No analysis, just what they were told and already believed to be true.
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Is it really sad that I am more inclined to believe that some trailer chick had wolfboy's baby after being abducted by a UFO than I am to believe anything CNN/MSNBC says? That would be a half a dozen in one hand, 6 in the other situation.. turds that is. |
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got an A+ on a paper in high school history dealing with yellow journalism among the colonists against the Brits.
Sam Adams wrote scathing opinion pieces with a byline of "an impartial witness" or something. his piece on the Tea Party made note of the protestors peaceful demeanor. |
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This weirds me out because I have recently become profoundly aware of how many people, rather educated doctors, engineers, etc. that should be able to.. should by nature, be questioning and verifying all input. Yet without a second thought will walk into a fire because they are told, "go that way". Most of the blue-state coastal types that see themselves as enlightened are really just a bunch of hicks with little experience of the world. I'm constantly amazed at how few of them have even seen the opposite coast of the US, let alone anything in-between. |
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Most of the blue-state coastal types that see themselves as enlightened are really just a bunch of hicks with little experience of the world. I'm constantly amazed at how few of them have even seen the opposite coast of the US, let alone anything in-between. Quoted:
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This weirds me out because I have recently become profoundly aware of how many people, rather educated doctors, engineers, etc. that should be able to.. should by nature, be questioning and verifying all input. Yet without a second thought will walk into a fire because they are told, "go that way". Most of the blue-state coastal types that see themselves as enlightened are really just a bunch of hicks with little experience of the world. I'm constantly amazed at how few of them have even seen the opposite coast of the US, let alone anything in-between. The urbanites on the coasts, hell even the ones in the middle, are just parochial as the fly-over country yokels that they look down on. Everybody needs to get out of their bubble a little more, and soon. |