Changes

I believe that the role of the newspapers in the recent election is very similar to Yellow Journalism, for instance, when Barack Obama called McCain’s economic policies a “pig in lipstick”, the next day all the tabloids and a lot of the newspapers had headlines like “Obama calls McCain/ Palin a Pig”! which caught my eye, and even though it wasn’t the truth, I had already picked up the newspaper and seen that Jeter was batting 333, so I wanted to read the sports section and then I saw that the new Batman movie was coming out. And so on, so even though the newspapers were not publishing the truth, they were still catching the public’s eye.

I believe that the role of the newspapers in the recent election is very similar to Yellow Journalism, for instance, when Barack Obama called McCain’s economic policies a “pig in lipstick”, the next day all the tabloids and a lot of the newspapers had headlines like “Obama calls McCain/ Palin a Pig”! which caught my eye, and even though it wasn’t the truth, I had already picked up the newspaper and seen that Jeter was batting 333, so I wanted to read the sports section and then I saw that the new Batman movie was coming out. And so on, so even though the newspapers were not publishing the truth, they were still catching the public’s eye.

On the other hand, newspapers were not so influential in this election because television, radio and the internet played a larger role.

On the other hand, newspapers were not so influential in this election because television, radio and the internet played a larger role.