Slate's Jack Shafer wants to bring back yellow journalism. Could sensationalistic muckraking be the future of the nonprinted word? Clay Shirky asserted this month that "Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism." He didn't say yellow journalism specifically, but maybe there's something to that argument. Even as newspapers have slid, the demand for off-color items of interest has certainly grown: witness the recently-31 Perez Hilton's fame or the insane amount of visitors to TMZ.
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