英语词汇yellow journalism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	yellow journalism
词源	yellow journalism. Yellow has been used to describe sensa- tional books and newspapers in the U.S. since 1846, the “yellow” referring to the cheap yellow covers some sensational books were wrapped in. Yellow journalism was first used in 1898, when the phrase was applied to the sensational stories that appeared in Hearst’s New York Evening Journal and Pulitzer’s New York World about Spanish atrocities in Cuba. Hearst’s cartoon char- acter the “Yellow Kid” could also have figured in the coining.
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