The Masquerade is over by Charlie Martin

The Masquerade is Over by Charlie Martin 

I’ve wanted to revive the term “yellow journalism” for a while. It originally came from the “newspaper wars” between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, and was named for the comic strip The Yellow Kid, which eventually ran in both papers. Both papers were known for outrageous and inflammatory headlines and a certain respect for facts, although the story of Hearst’s promise to Frederic Remington — “...