Question

how was it given the name Yellow Journalism?


It was the favorite color of Americans.


Yellow was in the Spanish flag the future enemy of the US.


Yellow ink was used for the newspapers.

Answer 1

Answer: Yellow ink/printing — it was named for the popular comic character the "Yellow Kid," whose yellow-suited cartoon ran in the fiercely competitive New York World and New York Journal in the 1890s. The papers used color printing (including yellow) in that rivalry, and sensational reporting associated with those papers came to be called "yellow journalism." It was not named because yellow was Americans' favorite color or because of the Spanish flag.