Judge — January 30, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **"Making a Newspaper"** depicts a managing editor orchestrating sensationalism. He instructs a subordinate to fabricate or exaggerate a government scandal, explicitly directing him to make it "sensational" while obscuring truth. The editor then calls the Washington correspondent, planning to manufacture a "fierce and frenzied denunciation" to boost circulation and public appeal. This satirizes yellow journalism—the practice of prioritizing sensational stories over factual reporting to increase readership and profit. The other sketches on the page ("The Fresh-Air Friend," "Nothing Doing," "Troubles," "The Cause," and "Fictions Told by Boys") appear to be unrelated humorous vignettes typical of Judge's comic content, rather than interconnected political satire.