Slate.com's Jack Shafer Thinks There is No Yellow Journalism Anymore...Wants to Bring It Back...Serious, He Wrote That...On the Internet

Jack Shafer writes in his column “Bring Back Yellow Journalism” in Slate:

But every now and again, I wish the newspapers landing on my doorstep contained a little more blood, took a position without being partisan, yelled a tad more, and brushed some yellow from the palette while painting their stories.

There. I’ve said it. I wish our better newspapers availed themselves of some of the techniques of yellow journalism and a little less of the solemnity we associate with the Committee of Concerned Journalists.

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