ABSTRACT
Journalism for the masses was also given the modifiers “yellow” and “gutter” due to the greed that presumably motivated its proprietors and editors. In the year 1900, more or less, yellow journalism reached the pinnacle of its influence and Hebrew writers and journalists also addressed themselves to it. Yellow journalism, Brenner alleges, “concerns itself with trivialities and inconsequentialities such as disputes among ritual slaughterers, arguments between pietists and socialists, and eulogizing some money-lender who has died.” Mass journalism is used to hide and mask reality and to disseminate false information, all of which in the service of interests of the powerful. The inquiry yields a profile of the printers, editors, and journalists, and examines the editors’ working patterns, the gathering of journalistic information, and distribution of the resulting product in the public sphere. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
