Preface and Acknowledgments ix

Introduction

Part One: Puncturing the Myths

Chapter 1. First Use: The Emergence and Diffusion of “Yellow Journalism”

Chapter 2. The Yellow Press and the Myths of Its Readership

Chapter 3. Not Likely Sent: The Remington-Hearst “Telegrams”

Chapter 4. Not to Blame: The Yellow Press and the Spanish-American War

Part Two: Defining the Legacies

Chapter 5. How Yellow Journalism Lives On: An Analysis of Newspaper Content

Chapter 6. Echoes in Contemporary Journalism

Appendix A: Yellow Journalism Content Analysis Coding Sheet

Appendix B: Yellow Journalism Content Analysis Coding Instructions

Selected Bibliography

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