Muckraking and Yellow Journalism

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This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. The writer defines the terms and offers examples, such as William Randolph Hearst's promotion of the Spanish American War, in regards to yellow journalism, and Upton Sinclair as the best known muckraker. Three pages in length, two sources are cited.