The documentary TV series “The Publishers”, which aired on Kaan Channel 11, concluded this week with an expression of doubt regarding the future of the print press, and with veteran journalists lamenting professional qualities that were – and have been – lost.
“Today I don’t look at Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma’ariv, newspapers that don’t try to reach out to readers like me,” said Yossi Klein, the man who founded and edited “Khal Ha’ir”, the Jerusalem flagship of the Shoken chain of places. Klein founded and later edited the daily newspaper “News”. Today he publishes opinion columns in Haaretz. “In the journalism of the past there were ideals, there was a back wind for the writers,” lamented Amalia Argman-Barnea, a former Yediot Ahronoth.