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He coined the term to refer to the new type of journalism that was being practiced by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. These two men were very successful at the expense of the other newspapers who demeaned their style of journalism. See {615131} for a definition of “yellow journalism”.


Kahn was the leading scientist behind the Pakistan nuclear weapons program. However, he then was personally involved in not only selling nuclear secrets to other counties but to terrorists as well. He personally enriched himself while enabling nuclear proliferation in the world. The article was an expose of his dishonest and illegal activities. The Pakistan government was in a bind. Kahn was a national hero, the only Pakistani who had ever won the Nobel Prize in a Scientific Field. Convicted and then pardoned by the President, but he was put under house arrest and surveillance and banned from any activity involving technical assistance to others. After a few years, he was released from house arrest. Kahn’s religious bigotry towards Hindus as disclosed by his letter made him even more of an international pariah. See {586385} for other attacks on his critics.


Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass
  • Born: October 16, 1927
  • Died: April 13, 2015
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Sculptor, Graphic Designer

Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.