Yellow-Cross journalism is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched medical-related news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism, restricted within the medical/health/scientific fields.
Headline: "Water Bottles Cause Cancer"
Explanation: A certain manufacturer of an isolated water bottle used a chemical which could possibly induce the growing of certain types of cancer cells.
Biology Undergraduate: "That's called yellow-cross journalism..."
Explanation: A certain manufacturer of an isolated water bottle used a chemical which could possibly induce the growing of certain types of cancer cells.
Biology Undergraduate: "That's called yellow-cross journalism..."
by biologist_at_elite_college November 10, 2010