yellow mellow

Today Yellow journalism is used primarily in the news to gain views and rile the public up with something that normally is not very serious. Even in the business area to lure people into purchasing their products and services with deceptive advertisements when in reality they truly know very little. An extremely good example would be the H1N1 or swine flu, after the news's companies used the threat of a global pandemic to rile the public and attract attention to their news station.When in fact the normal seasonal flu killed far more people than the swine flu did in the course of the year. During the Spanish American war the headline "great sea victory for America  vengeance for the Maine begun" was when the news headlines knew little about what happened in the ocean and used the Maine as a railing point to rile the public.