Still Further Antedating of "Yellow Journalism"

[Geoffrey Nunberg]

Owing perhaps to  a synaesthetic universal, 'giallo', now the standard Italian name for crime novel,  is derived from the yellow covers of a series of detective novels first published by Mondadori in the 1920's; see http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letteratura_gialla.

Geoff

> From: "Baker, John" <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM>
> Subject: Re: Still Further Antedating of "Yellow Journalism"
> Date: February 3, 2014 8:37:40 AM PST
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> Access Newspaper Archive has earlier datings for a couple of related terms.
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> I argued last year that "yellow journalism" derives from or is a special use of the then existing term "yellow-covered literature," which was trashy or sensational fiction, periodicals, etc., see≈, and I still think that correct.  I'm not sure how "yellow dog journalism" got its small but lasting foothold, but perhaps it is in reference to the low estate of yellow dogs.
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> John Baker

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