The New Yellow Journalists

Yellow journalism is defined as an exaggerated, exploitative, sensational style of newspaper reporting. It emerged at the end of the nineteenth century when rival newspaper publishers competed for sales in the coverage of events leading up to and during the Spanish-American War in 1898.  Yellow journalism uses sensational style to attract readers.

Terrance McCoy, author of the newsprint on “For the ‘new journalist,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks”, (November 20, 2016), showcased two individuals working on a pro-Donald Trump website.  She stated that both are 26-year-old college graduates, Paris Wade with an Advertisement degree and Ben Goldman with a Business degree.

Along with their parents they were supporters of President Obama. Yet for the election of 2016, Donald Trump was their choice. They are the owners and the writers of the website Libertywritersnews.com, which has gotten tens of millions page views, while working in their pajamas.

Ms. McCoy also stated that because of their unemployment after graduating from college, they ended up working at a Mexican restaurant in Tennessee.  They later moved to California and started an advertisement business that failed.

The one client that was attracted to their work hired them and they started writing stories that were totally misleading, exaggerated, and untrue.  They were getting paid $120 from 10 minutes of work, based on the amount of clicks they got from the website.

They started making extreme headlines, which caught the attention of readers.  Although they were aware that the information they were posting on their website was not true, the money they were making was worth more then telling the truth.  Their goal was to increase the number of viewers by captivating them through bold headlines on their website.

Greed has played a major role is our society; now these men have figured out a way to make money from sensational journalism. They wrote non-factual headlines targeting individuals they cared about and wrote misleading articles that tore apart individuals they did not like. So they are profiting from the sensational lies on their website not caring if and how they destroy lives.

They grew their business and now have writers and attorneys all over the country supporting this style of fake news. Some examples of their articles are,  “CAN’T TRUST OBAMA”, “DOWN WITH THE GLOBALIST”, “THE TRUTH IS OUT”, to name a few.