The CNN Effect: Changing The Government During The Late Cold War

Clay Shirky who wrote Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (1993) argues that society doesn’t need newspapers society needs journalism to save society. Shirky supports this argument by giving a historical background to the problems newspapers face and how the problems have developed over time and the solutions society has came up with. The blogger concludes that in order for journalism to go farther new models must be created in place of past molds. Shirky directs this blog toward the current and future generations in attempt to motivate new models and methods of journalism.

Yellow Journalism is a type of publishment in the newspaper that seems to be nothing more than a huge exaggeration to grab the reader's attention. An article like this is meant to catch the eyes of a customer and increase newspaper sales. The document I reviewed was an article in a newspaper from late in the 1800’s. The newspaper headline is titled, “Maine Explosion caused by Bomb or Torpedo?” There were many debates about who blew up the Battleship of Maine and how it happened.

Yellow Journalism is the use of sensationalized and exaggerated reporting by newspapers or magazines to attract Readers (Ch 18. section 2). The writers would make the stories a lot worse than what it really was. People did not respond well to what they were reading.Two journalist, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, sparked war with their embroidered and overblown articles, that poisoned the mind of Americans. so while the journalist instilled a false sense of

According to an article written in (His.state.gov), Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts. In the late 19th century it was one of many factors that persuaded the United States and Spain into war in Cuba

From 1895 to 1898, the yellow press exploited high public tensions for headlines regularly. In fact, Hearst is reported to have told one of his photographers: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”

The politically corrupt use fake media to deceive the general population and alter their opinions and views to match what fits their agenda. Another term for this obliteration is “yellow journalism,” and it has been the culprit of many ruined careers and relationships. Yellow journalism is journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. Yellow journalism was a very hot topic back in the 1920’s and 1930’s and it has since then died out, until recently when the current President of the United States, Donald Trump ran for office.

Yellow Journalism- a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses

Newspapers and other forms of news are very vital communication methods in the world today. The goal of news is to sell us their ideas by being biased and talking about how their idea is best. News can give us biased information although, the viewer could do further research on the

One reason that Yellow Journalism had such a large effect of the public was the article was organized and presented to readers. A substantial characteristic of yellow journalism was having scare headlines in large print. The papers would put an event that would easily grab the attention of the readers, and would word the headline to make the readers want to the full article. The general public had no idea that what they were reading was untrue, so Americans grew angry and started clamoring to go to war with Spain. An example of the newspapers using this tactic was when the New York Journal posted a paper which headlines read: “CRISIS AT HAND Cabinet In Session, Growing Belief In SPANISH TREACHERY.” 14 The paper specifically put parts of the sentence in capitals so that someone who was just scanning the paper would get two lines, “CRISIS AT HAND” and “SPANISH TREACHERY.” This strategy played a large part in causing the Spanish-American war because of the effect that it had on the public. Besides the title and front page format, newspapers were able to affect the

Yellow journalism is a type of writing that uses exaggeration and extreme headlines. It was developed by Joseph Pulitzer, a journalist who worked for the New York World. Pulitzer’s writing competition was William Randolph Hearst, a journalist who

One of those important factors is Yellow Journalism. Yellow Journalism is a type of journalism or writing that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. It was pretty much stretching the truth to entertain readers or to get citizens to support someone on an issue. Yellow Journalism was also used to persuade U.S. citizens to support the war against Spain. Newspapers printed articles about how the United States wanted to help smaller countries that were being abused by Spain.

In chapter 10 of Writing Today, by Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Charles Paine, Cathi Shaw, and Jordan Stouck, an essay titled, The CNN Effect Revisited, written by Piers Robinson, details the “CNN Effect” and contrasts the changes after the events of 9/11. Robinson explains that during the 90’s, the media had a much larger influence and impact with the United States foreign policy and would emphasise coverage on topics to push politicians to make change. If a government policy doesn’t gain the support it requires to be put into action, “[...] the news media influence increases” (P 234), while the ones that do, “[...] the influence of news media coverage is reduced.” (P 234) The media catered to their own self interests and agenda, using the audience

News reporting in the United States has moved and developed through several successive periods. It begins in the early stages of American history during the colonial period where news was not nearly as important as it is today. We have seen news reporting in the Party Press Era where politics heavily influenced newspaper content. News then reached a greater audience with the establishment of the Penny Press, which also created more relevant newspaper content. In the late 1800s, news reporting in the United States experienced over-dramatization and sensationalism during the Yellow Journalism period.

The CNN Effect has been described in many positive and negative ways. Former UN Security General Boutros-Ghali described CNN as “the sixteenth member of the Security Council (Gilboa, 2005).” While Colin Powell saw the network’s effect as being that “live television coverage doesn’t change the policy, but it does create the environment in which policy is made (Gilboa, 2005).” These two statements show that the CNN Effect has an impact both domestically and internationally as a major part of the world’s political process. The CNN Effect may be seen as a positive or a negative but despite one’s opinion it has had the varying effects of being part of the agenda setting process and acting as an accelerant. Although the CNN Effect,

Yellow journalism was a major issue in the late 1890s during the Spanish-American War. The purpose of yellow journalism is to use headlines and report sensational events that draws the attention of the audience in order to sell more newspapers, even if the facts used were not legitimate. Yellow journalism came to an end with the development of objective journalism, which reports facts that are not biased. With the rise of social media, yellow journalism and “fake news” are making a comeback and becoming a “norm” in modern society. The rise of social media is contributing to the amount of yellow journalism and fake news that is occurring, which is ultimately leading to party polarization.