yellow journalism

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 words

say in the editorial direction.63 But capitalism imposed its logic. In some cases profit-hungry publishers found that sensationalism, what came to be called yellow journalism, was a lucrative course. Bribery of journalists, showing favoritism toward advertisers, and many other unethical practices were common. Most important, by the 1890s newspaper markets

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro  · 26 Jul 2021  · 309pp  · 81,243 words

behalf of his favored causes and to undermine his enemies.26 For well over a century, newspapers openly identified with political parties. The era of yellow journalism was markedly free of concerns about objectivity. Only in the aftermath of World War I, with America’s intelligentsia falling out of love with democracy

You Are What You Read

by Jodie Jackson  · 3 Apr 2019  · 145pp  · 41,453 words

compete with the entertainment preferences of the consumer. Stories became jacked up with crime, scandal, celebrities and ‘scientific breakthroughs’. This kind of reporting was termed ‘yellow journalism’ in the 1990s, characterised by its exaggerated, sensationalised and poorly researched content. One newspaper historian describes it as a ‘shrieking, gaudy, sensation-loving, devil-may

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

tendency of the newspapers to corrupt, I shall cite a passage from [author] James Fenimore Cooper,” writes Weaver. “Though Cooper lived before the advent of yellow journalism, he seems to have stated the essential situation with a truth and eloquence impossible to improve on when he said in The American Democrat: ‘As

Cocaine Nation: How the White Trade Took Over the World

by Thomas Feiling  · 20 Jul 2010  · 376pp  · 121,254 words

the Republic, but from the eighteenth century onwards, drinkers had to contend with a strong temperance movement. American newspapers were chock-a-block with the yellow journalism of zealous moral entrepreneurs, who regularly claimed that booze lay at the root of most of the crime, insanity, poverty, divorce, illegitimacy and business failures

Writing on the Wall: Social Media - the First 2,000 Years

by Tom Standage  · 14 Oct 2013  · 290pp  · 94,968 words

for the first time. The two tried to outdo each other in sensationalism, inventing stories and faking pictures in what came to be known as “yellow journalism.” Most famously, Hearst used his papers to stoke anti-Spanish sentiment in 1898, printing lurid accounts of Spanish persecution in Cuba and helping turn public

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

by Franklin Foer  · 31 Aug 2017  · 281pp  · 71,242 words

of the nineteenth century, a new generation of press barons (William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer) came to see the massive profits to be made in yellow journalism—overhyped, tawdry stories about crime and gossip, with lavish illustrations and blunt headlines. The sensationalist press generated sizable audiences—a large mass of consumers who

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

by Lawrence Lessig  · 2 Jan 2009

confidence to do what they can.” This was the part of the story that I had heard about. It was the part, in my perverse yellow-journalism sense, I wanted Lawver to tell me more about. But to my surprise, and (eventual) delight, Lawver was not so interested in trashing Warner. Her

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

by Edward J. Larson  · 13 Mar 2018  · 422pp  · 119,123 words

Elkins the villain. Some later accounts had it costing the ambitious senator the presidency.3 New York’s Evening Post denounced the prying coverage as yellow journalism at its worst, and the Times of London agreed, but both reprinted the core of it, sent reporters scurrying after the latest scoop, and clearly

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

by Steven Pinker  · 14 Oct 2021  · 533pp  · 125,495 words

and responding to them proportionately.32 * * * • • • Outrages cannot become public without media coverage. It was in the aftermath of the Maine explosion that the term “yellow journalism” came into common usage. Even when journalists don’t whip readers into a jingoistic lather, intemperate public reactions are a built-in hazard. I believe

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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam  · 12 Oct 2020  · 678pp  · 160,676 words

The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

by Sean McFate  · 22 Jan 2019  · 330pp  · 83,319 words

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

by W. Bernard Carlson  · 11 May 2013  · 733pp  · 184,118 words

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

by Michiko Kakutani  · 17 Jul 2018  · 137pp  · 38,925 words

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch  · 21 Jun 2021  · 446pp  · 109,157 words

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger  · 26 Nov 2020  · 371pp  · 109,320 words

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

Capitalism: the unknown ideal

by Ayn Rand  · 15 Aug 1966  · 400pp  · 129,841 words

Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

by Shawn Lawrence Otto  · 10 Oct 2011  · 692pp  · 127,032 words

King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist

by Mark Stevens  · 31 May 1993  · 414pp  · 108,413 words

Flight of the WASP

by Michael Gross  · 562pp  · 177,195 words

The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History

by Roland Ennos  · 18 Feb 2021

Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

by William McGowan  · 16 Nov 2010  · 316pp  · 91,969 words

The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution

by Marc Weingarten  · 12 Dec 2006  · 363pp  · 123,076 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

by John U. Bacon  · 7 Nov 2017  · 476pp  · 129,209 words

Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery

by Ira Rutkow  · 8 Mar 2022  · 509pp  · 142,456 words

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

by Robert J. Shiller  · 14 Oct 2019  · 611pp  · 130,419 words

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble  · 8 Jan 2018  · 290pp  · 73,000 words

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon  · 12 Jan 2016  · 1,104pp  · 302,176 words

The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos

by Angela Garcia  · 30 Apr 2024  · 271pp  · 85,246 words

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication From Ancient Times to the Internet

by David Kahn  · 1 Feb 1963  · 1,799pp  · 532,462 words

Surfaces and Essences

by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander  · 10 Sep 2012  · 1,079pp  · 321,718 words

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

by Adam Winkler  · 27 Feb 2018  · 581pp  · 162,518 words

Cadillac Desert

by Marc Reisner  · 1 Jan 1986  · 898pp  · 253,177 words

Cuba: An American History

by Ada Ferrer  · 6 Sep 2021  · 723pp  · 211,892 words

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

by Lawrence Wright  · 17 Jan 2013  · 684pp  · 173,622 words

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Aug 2020

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder  · 1 Sep 2008  · 1,336pp  · 415,037 words

Rats

by Robert Sullivan  · 8 May 2009  · 307pp  · 96,974 words

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

by Edwin Lefèvre and William J. O'Neil  · 14 May 1923  · 650pp  · 204,878 words

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

by Christopher Lasch  · 1 Jan 1978

A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

by Rebecca Solnit  · 31 Aug 2010

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

by Laurie Garrett  · 15 Feb 2000

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

by Adam Aleksic  · 15 Jul 2025  · 278pp  · 71,701 words

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles

by Michael Gross  · 1 Nov 2011  · 613pp  · 200,826 words

Stealth of Nations

by Robert Neuwirth  · 18 Oct 2011  · 340pp  · 91,387 words

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

by James Crabtree  · 2 Jul 2018  · 442pp  · 130,526 words

On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia

by Steve Coll  · 29 Mar 2009  · 413pp  · 128,093 words

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

by Ron Chernow  · 1 Jan 1997  · 1,106pp  · 335,322 words

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand  · 1 Jan 1943  · 1,108pp  · 321,463 words

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

by Michael Dobbs  · 3 Sep 2008  · 631pp  · 171,391 words

The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe  · 4 Mar 2008

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh  · 14 Apr 2018  · 286pp  · 87,401 words

The Sellout: A Novel

by Paul Beatty  · 2 Mar 2016  · 271pp  · 83,944 words

The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease

by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare  · 11 Jan 2011

George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

by David L. Roll  · 8 Jul 2019