The Quiz: Sensationalist newspaper stories in the 1890s were nicknamed what?
Yellow journalism
Red lies
The daily blues
Unjust journalism
In the late 19th century, newspapers battled one another in an effort to sell the most papers. In a tactic called “yellow journalism,” after a popular newspaper comic strip at the time called “The Yellow Kid,” newspapers used sensational headlines and feature stories to lure readers. But by the turn of the 20th century, the practice had faded.
The correct answer to this quiz is Yellow journalism.