Yellow Journalism Blog 1

I think one of the things that motivates yellow journalists is, especially Wade and Goldman from the article, is money. They started off as being poor teenagers and then they started to write false news and the money began to come in. I think that they do not really care if the news is true or not, as long as they are getting paid. Another thing that I believe motivates them is the response that they receive from web readers. Their goal is to get people to wind up about a specific topic and for them to have a huge reaction towards it. In todays world, most of the information that people get is from the internet. I think that people believe what yellow journalists write about is because if it goes with their mind sets and their beliefs. It basically makes their opinion stronger since they know someone else agrees with them. People now a days believe anything they read online, no matter who says it. Yellow Journalism is very widespread, not just on the internet. One huge example of yellow journalism is tabloids. They write in magazines and the way they attract readers is by making cover pages colorful and using big texts and writing about scandalous claims within the celebrities.  Although yellow journalism has changed since it began, it will always be around.