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Yellow journalism and the Red road
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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
03-12-2003
Yellow journalism is back in full force in America. Originally coined to
describe the coverage that helped promote the Spanish-American War of 1898,
the term describes a type of journalism high on exaggeration and bias,
purposely misguiding readers to achieve the financial and political
purposes of particular publishers and editors.
During the turn of the 20th Century, it was driven by the competition
between William Hearst's New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer's New York
World. These days the yellow journalism comes primarily out of right-wing
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Proud prefects who uphold old tradition.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
; ...responsibility of being a prefect can benefit youngsters...Every year 50 prefects are chosen from...wanted a 'real' prefect system back...every year group." Prefects still exist outside...which abolished prefects and created a student...was to demand the prefect system back...
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Prefect finish
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...application to be a prefect rejected. The senior...an easy berth. Prefects give up free time...system to choose 30 prefects out of the 70 kids...Determined to turn the prefect's job into a training...on top of their prefect's responsibilities...and five senior prefects would be ...
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Bring back prefects
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...when, in fact, the prefects ('praepostors...admit it. I was once a prefect in a longago, half...conventional lines with the prefects responsible for all...used to come, in. Prefects live in both adult and...The power of being a prefect, in those days at least...
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Culture: The boys are back in town; As The Prefects prepare for a reunion, Martin Longley looks at the band's past and future.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...ambassadors. The original line-up of The Prefects was re-assembled in Wolverhampton but...weekend. This is the institution where old Prefects guitarist Alan Apperley now lectures...the dawn of the bondage trouser. The Prefects quartet emerged in 1976, more obviously...
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Our school proud to keep tradition of prefects alive.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
; ...Girls from 1929 to 1939 when prefects were selected from the sixth...where there was always one prefect on duty. I do not remember...stolen from the cloakrooms. The prefects even lent a sympathetic ear...with pride that I accepted my prefect's badge. My grandson now...
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Prefects shed tough image to turn on the charm.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; School prefects are being sent to charm school to learn...one-day leadership course for senior prefects, held at a training college in Malvern...Knowles, said: "Gone are the days when prefects intimidated younger children and ordered...
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Maritzburg College de-badges prefects.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Saturday (South Africa)
; ...were rumours that the other prefects at school were unhappy with...the school, including some prefects about this action. Because...assembly on September 7 and to the prefect body on September 10 to explain my actions." No other prefects had resigned, he said.
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Appointment of Arab prefect fans French angst over affirmative action
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...origin'' was to be named a prefect. On Wednesday, however...elections. France has about 200 prefects and 500 subprefects. Prefects are charged with representing...Although the first Muslim prefect was appointed in 1942, few...
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School prefects in bullying row; Sacs boys face disciplinary probe.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa)
; ...newly appointed Sacs prefects have had their prefectship...by a group of six prefects and another boy in the prefect room, and warned...been due to attend a prefect's detention on the...detention and some prefects had reportedly told...
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School prefects in bullying row; Pupils tell of manhole incident.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa)
; ...by newly appointed prefects at the school. The...by a group of six prefects and another boy in the prefect room, and warned...been due to attend a prefect's detention on the...detention and some prefects had reportedly told...
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