Download or read book The Yellow Journalism written by David Ralph Spencer and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most notable among Hearst's competitors was The World, owned and managed by a Jewish immigrant named Joseph Pulitzer. In The Yellow Journalism, David R. Spencer describes how the evolving culture of Victorian journalism was shaped by the Yellow Press. He details how these two papers and others exploited scandal, corruption, and crime among New York's most influential citizens and its most desperate inhabitants - a policy that made this "journalism of action" remarkably effective, not just as a commercial force but also as an advocate for the city's poor and defenseless."--BOOK JACKET.