2.10 thinking like a historian

 
New York World - Yellow Journalism  

To please the public, newspaper empires made up false articles to draw in readers to keep buying their newspaper.  These articles often made fun of the lower class to please their higher class buyers.

Source 1 is a comic from the New York World that makes fun of the lower class and their children.
Source 2 is an editorial about a campaign made by the New York World.
Source 3 is an article written about an old lower class woman being attacked by higher and middle class children.
Source 4 is an article about how newspaper sales plummeted after the war and how newsboys went on strike.
Source 5 is a picture of two boys that sell newspapers and how they went into bars to sell to drunks.