Analysis Of The Yellow Kid By Leon Barritt
This cartoon by Leon Barritt was published on June 29, 1898. Its caption, “The big type war of the yellow kids,” refers to the New York City newspaper rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Hearst’s New York Journal and Pulitzer’s New York World competed for readers by trying to be as sensational as possible. In 1898, this meant arousing patriotic anger at Spain and calling for war.
This sort of emotional reporting came to be known as “yellow journalism.” The name comes from a popular comic strip called The Yellow Kid, by artist R. F. Outcault. This strip first appeared in Pulitzer’s paper. Outcault soon moved to Hearst’s Journal, but Pulitzer then created his own version of the same strip. Here both Hearst and Pulitzer
This sort of emotional reporting came to be known as “yellow journalism.” The name comes from a popular comic strip called The Yellow Kid, by artist R. F. Outcault. This strip first appeared in Pulitzer’s paper. Outcault soon moved to Hearst’s Journal, but Pulitzer then created his own version of the same strip. Here both Hearst and Pulitzer