"'" is a German pejorative term used to refer to tabloid journalism and the yellow press. The term is a

neologism A neologism Greek νέο- ''néo''(="new") and λόγος /''lógos'' meaning "speech, utterance"] is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not been fully accepted int ...

from the early 20th century, formed from the word ''journalism'' and the French word ''canaille'', meaning ''scum'', ''scoundrel'' or ''rabble''. The term was introduced by the Austrian writer Karl Kraus (writer), Karl Kraus in an article in his journal ''Die Fackel'' in 1902. In a later article in the same journal, Kraus wrote that the original inventor of the term was the Austrian

dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...

Alfred von Berger. The pejorative term was much used by the German

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in their attacks on the press of the

Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is al ...

. Unlike many other terms used by the Nazis, the word ' is still used in present-day Germany, and has also established itself in the political parlance of

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and

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."Journaille".

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Marc De Coster
"Het Journaille."
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Adolf Josef Storfer Adolf Josef Storfer (11 January 1888, Botoşani, Romania – 2 December 1944, Melbourne, Australia) was an educated Austrian lawyer turned journalist and publisher. He belonged to Sigmund Freud's group of friends in Vienna and fled to Australia v ...

"Kanaille."
In: ''Wörter und ihre Schicksale.'' Atlantis, Berlin / Zürich 1935 * Cornelia Schmitz-Berning
"Journaille."
In: ''Vokabular des Nationalsozialismus.'' 2., expanded and updated edition

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De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, Criticism of journalism German words and phrases Journalism terminology {{journalism-stub

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