What I feel is a very important fact to know in this chapter is the beginnignand definitions of yellow journalism. What is yellow Journalism you may say? Yellow Journalism were the papers that focused on writing about scandals and crimes (basically all the juicyy stuff I love to read). The men who created this paper on my kind of news were William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. Now if you're wondering if the last name Pulitzer sounds so familar its because it is. Joseph Pulitzer created the Pulitzer prizes that are still around today! Now to get back to the point because of Mr. Pulitzer and Mr. Hearst we now today have investigative journalism.
Now todays papers have been suffering for the past thirty years with its customers. Why you may say? I believe it's because newspapers have gotten so expensive! In addtion to that the recession wasn't a big help and then theres the fact that most newspaper have their news online. Why would I spend money for a paper newspaper when I can go on my handy dandy computer, and look up the news when I want for free. I don't know how long paper newspapers will still be around for, but at the rate their declining readership have gone, I'll give it about 10 years(and I'm being generous).
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