Frank Luther Mott Quotes
Yellow journalism is defined by prominent headlines that screamed excitement, often about comparatively unimportant news; a lavish use of pictures, many of them without significance; faked interviews and stories; a Sunday supplement and color comics; and a more or less ostentatious sympathy with the 'underdog,' with campaigns against abuses suffered by the common people.
Frank Luther Mott, Media Historian, Definition of “Yellow Journalism”, Quoted in Joseph W. Campbell, Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies, 2001
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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”.
- Born: April 4, 1886
- Died: October 23, 1964
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Frank Luther Mott was an American historian and journalist, who won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History for Volumes II and III of his series, A History of American Magazines.
