Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Yellow Journalism

    My example of yellow journalism is this from http://www.failureisimpossible.com/essays/yellowjournalism.htm

    Basically, it is saying that the media lied about the election results Bush vs. Gore
  • The most notorious recent example is the Miami Herald headline, "REVIEW SHOWS BALLOTS SAY BUSH [WON]." The review of the ballots, however, identified more uncounted ballots for Gore than for Bush — enough that, if all valid votes had been counted, we'd have President Gore today. Several different ways of deciding which ballots to count did result in more votes for Bush; but the scenario that most closely match the requirements of Florida election statutes gave Gore the victory.

No comments:

Post a Comment