
Mas…La Cucaracha: A lie goes round the world before the truth can get its pants on

Nasty lying scoundrels, despicable peddlers of lies, and, mostly, people who published stuff others hoped would never see the light of day, were called “Yellow Journalists” in the 19th Century.
Who is the villain in the cartoon above? The sensational newspapers spinning “twaddle” about an election.
Public Domain Review, which curates public domain images like these, explains:
Mas…Before Fox News, ‘fake news’ was ‘yellow journalism’ (toons)
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