It refers to a circulation contest between two newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century, which started over a comic strip called "The Yellow Kid." Since then, "Yellow Journalism" has come to mean pursuing newspaper circulation by appealing to the lowest common denominator. It has no ethnic or other offensive significance, as far as I know.
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