Yellow journalism
Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers. It may feature exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists.By extension the term is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion, such as systematic political bias. Yellow journalism can also be the practice of over-dramatizing events.
These are five characteristics
1 scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news
2 lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings
3 use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudo-science, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts
4 emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips
5 dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the system