Stop the Presses! Fake News and the War of 1898
“In January 1897, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal sent artist Frederic Remington and writer Richard Harding Davis to Cuba, where the famous duo reported on the island's War of Independence. Remington referenced the comic character “Yellow Kid' to voice his concerns about the newspaper's quality.
A few years earlier, cartoonist Richard Outcault had created Yellow Kid, an Irish-American street urchin who sported a bright yellow nightgown, for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. Seeking to profit from the World's pioneering use of color in comics, Hearst convinced Outcault to bring Yellow Kid to the Journal. As the rivalry between the two newspapers intensified, the character became a symbol of journalistic excess. The terms "yellow press" and “yellow journalism" soon followed.”
Stop the Presses! Fake News and the War of 1898
“In January 1897, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal sent artist Frederic Remington and writer Richard Harding Davis to Cuba, where the famous duo reported on the island's War of Independence. Remington referenced the comic character “Yellow Kid' to voice his concerns about the newspaper's quality.
A few years earlier, cartoonist Richard Outcault had created Yellow Kid, an Irish-American street urchin who sported a bright yellow nightgown, for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. Seeking to profit from the World's pioneering use of color in comics, Hearst convinced Outcault to bring Yellow Kid to the Journal. As the rivalry between the two newspapers intensified, the character became a symbol of journalistic excess. The terms "yellow press" and “yellow journalism" soon followed.”