[ses1984]

It’s been a bit longer than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

It probably goes back as long as they have been shouting news in the town square in Rome or before that even.

[lukan]

Word around the campfire is, telling stories and exaggerating them to get people attention, is as old as humanity.

But good journalism is still something else.

[otterley]

True enough!