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When the media tries to stir up public opinion by reporting the news in a sensationalist manner, the practice is known as?

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This practice is known as "yellow journalism". This is the worst kind of journalism in terms of quality as it often doesn't fact-check its information but rather just says random things about people they think aill be interesting to write about. 
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It's known as yellow journalism

It usually a journalism technique when they exaggerate something without legitimate well researched data

Though i hate to say this, American Journalism currently doing it to Putin. Headlines like "Putin has a 200 billion net worth fortune" from one of biggest newspaper in our country is an exaggeration without enough factual data
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