In France, an important date is 1863, the year of foundation of the "Le Petit Journal" by Moïse Polydore Millaud. A newspaper that anticipates for certain aspects the "presse de boulevard" (whose characteristics are close to what is called yellow press in the USA). In Switzerland this press is very late, it is necessary to point out the failed tentactive of "Actualis" (which is published only a few months in 1940) and The foundation of "Blick" in 1959.
Journalism, as we understand the term in the west, emerges and grows with commercial democratic conditions.
Just as businesses can say "my product is better than your product" so too can journalists say "This bit of news is more important than that bit of news"
and thus steer the public discourse.
The idea behind yellow journalism is that the press can selectively print stories or editorials to influence the masses or the politicians. In autocratic nations things are quite the other way around and it is the political leaders who use the press to manipulate the people.
So yellow journalism (recently called FAKE NEWS) has existed from the origins of journalism itself.
The more "democratic" (that means commercially-democratic) the society, the more diverse its newspapers, TV shows and journals can become.
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