yellow press
yellow press noun: newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.
Noun
yellow press (plural yellow presses)
- Newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.
- Near-synonyms: tabloids, gutter press
- The Olivette incident has often been cited as emblematic of the distortions published by Hearst and the rest of the yellow press during the Cuban revolution, but it seems to have been founded in an honest mistake.1986, G. J. A. O'Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic, page 82
- Synonyms:
- tabloid, gutter press
- Antonyms:
- broadsheet, newspaper of record
yellow press meaning in Urdu, Kannada, Arabic and Indonesian
yellow press in Urdu
- جھوٹی, مبالغہ آمیز, خبریں دینے والے اخبارات
yellow press in Kannada
- ಪೀತಪತ್ರಿಕೆ, ಪೀತಪತ್ರಿಕೋದ್ಯಮ, ಉದ್ರೇಕದ ವೃತ್ತಾಂತದ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆ
yellow press in Arabic
- newspapers which publish sensationalist articles
- صِحَافَة صَفْرَاء ṣiḥāfa ṣafrāʔ
yellow press in Indonesian
- newspapers which publish sensationalist articles
- koran kuning
Synonyms of yellow press
Antonyms
- broadsheet
- newspaper of record
Forms of yellow press
| plural | yellow presses |
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Origin of yellow press
From the comic feature "The Yellow Kid" in the Journal newspaper, first published in 1895.
Questions about yellow press
- What does yellow press mean?
- Yellow press means newspapers which publish sensationalist articles rather than well researched and sober journalism.
- What is yellow press in Urdu?
- Yellow press in Urdu is جھوٹی, مبالغہ آمیز, خبریں دینے والے اخبارات. See Yellow press meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is yellow press?
- Yellow press is a noun.
- What is the plural of yellow press?
- The plural of yellow press is yellow presses.
Words near yellow press in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: yellow press (page history and authors); yellow press (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yellow press (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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