Yellow journalism, specifically the USS Maine and Pulizer and Hearst don’t really factor into the 24hr news cycle. They absolutely factor into how the news has always been a tool for the wealthy to shape and alter public opinion. However that’s been a problem since the stratification of wealth. You can go all the way back to cuneiform tablets to show this. It’s human nature.
Yellow journalism, specifically the USS Maine and Pulizer and Hearst don’t really factor into the 24hr news cycle. They absolutely factor into how the news has always been a tool for the wealthy to shape and alter public opinion. However that’s been a problem since the stratification of wealth. You can go all the way back to cuneiform tablets to show this. It’s human nature.
https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Documentation-Discoveries/Artefact/Cuneiform-Tablets-the-Genesis-of-Documentation/1ba0af04-af97-4b68-b9c1-4cc40946a3b0