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To: Up Yours Marxists
Hype has been around for over a century.

The first 'media war' was the Spanish-American War.

Noun

Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration: equating murder and dismemberment with smoking pot is the worst yellow journalism

Origin

1895: from the appearance in an issue of the New York World of a cartoon in which a child in a yellow dress ( 'The Yellow Kid') was the central figure. The color printing was an experiment designed to attract customers.
Source: Oxforddictionaries.com


5 posted on 06/29/2014 6:09:27 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
Thanks for the word origins. Here's some samples of The Yellow Kid.

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6 posted on 06/29/2014 6:16:53 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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