It really depends on what your beliefs are. Yellow Journalism is lying and exaggerating in news or newspaper to comfort people. I personally think it is bad because are not good, and it is better to hear the truth.
There are only two real ways this can help:
It gives people jobs and allows them to buy and sell product. Thus helping the economy. I guess.
It provides entertainment value to Americans...
One of the factors contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War was sensational writing of yellow journalism. So called yellow journalists exaggerated and embellished facts and appealed...
Yellow journalism is the printing of sensational stories intended to excite the reader. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst used yellow journalism because they wanted to increase the money...
Like all man made things there is good and bad. Journalism is supposed to be a good thing and it is when it reports the facts and not someone's opinion. We need to know what is going on in the world....