title: The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America's Emergence as a World Power (Medill Visions Of The American Press)
author: Judith Spencer
description: David R. Spencer is a professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Western Ontario.<br />
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  THE MILITARY AND THE PRESS
  
  
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  Medill School of Journalism
  
  
  **VISIONS _of the_** **AMERICAN PRESS**
  
  
  General Editor
  
  
  David Abrahamson
  
  
  _Other titles in this series_
  
  
  Herbert J. Gans
  
  
  _Deciding What’s News: A Study of_ CBS Evening News,
  
  
  NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, _and_ Time
  
  
  Maurine H. Beasley
  
  
  _First Ladies and the Press:The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age_
  
  
  Patricia Bradley
  
  
  _Women and the Press:The Struggle for Equality_
  
  
  David A. Copeland
  
  
  _The Idea of a Free Press:The Enlightenment and Its Unruly Legacy_
  
  
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  T H E M I L I TA RY
  
  
  A N D T H E P R E S S
  
  
  A N U N E ASY
  
  
  T R U C E
  
  
  Michael S. Sweeney
  
  
  _Foreword by Roy Gutman_
  
  
  MEDILL SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
  
  
  Northwestern University Press
  
  
  Evanston, Illinois
  
  
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  Northwestern University Press
  
  
  www.nupress.northwestern.edu
  
  
  Copyright © by Michael S. Sweeney
  
  
  Published 2006 by Northwestern University Press.
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Printed in the United Sta