The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power

Journalism History | July 1, 2007| | Copyright

Spencer, David R. The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007. 272 pp. $24.95.

That William Randolph Hearst, in his yellow journalism days in New York, was a rank imitator of the methods of Joseph Pulitzer is a notion that refuses to the, recent scholarship notwithstanding. David Nasaw, for one, sought to dismantle this stereotype in The Chief, his outstanding biography of Hearst published in 2000. At the New York Journal, which Hearst acquired in 1895, Nasaw wrote, Hearst and his staff constantly improved on ...

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