Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graphic employed 400 men & women. Last week it was being published, from day to day pending appointment of a receiver or discovery of a purchaser...
...Graphic shrieked, screamed, leered, turned its collar around and preached. It introduced "composographs" (faked pictures) of murders and bedroom scenes on the excuse of "acquainting readers with life's realities." It published sexy stories and sex pictures to "help tear down false prudery" and "to demonstrate the benefits of physical culture." Scarcely a newspaper, it earned the name "pornoGraphic" and the contempt of decent journalists. Its circulation hit a peak of 350,000, dropped steadily for the past three years...
...Bernarr Macfadden evolved a magazine publishing formula which made him rich. As years rolled by and millions rolled in, it occurred to him to try applying his formula to a newspaper, in the city where the gumchewing population is largest. In Manhattan in September 1924 appeared his tabloid Evening Graphic, a daily magazine of sexationalism which announced itself a "crusading newspaper," with the motto "Nothing But the Truth...
Last week one of two facts was demonstrated: either Publisher Macfadden's estimate of the Manhattan mob mind was unprofitably low; or the gumchewer field had already been pre-empted by the other tabloids, the Mirror and the thumpingly successful Daily News. For last week Publisher Macfadden threw his Graphic into bankruptcy...
...days before the Graphic's bankruptcy another Macfadden paper, the New Haven Times, was sold for $10,000 to the neighboring Journal-Courier, which promptly junked it. In Michigan two other obscure Macfadden sheets, the Lansing Capital News and Greenville News, were expected to be disposed of momentarily. Some time ago Macfadden sold another pair of Michigan smalltown sheets. (None of these five was a tabloid, none bore the Macfadden fleshpot hallmark.) Remaining in his hands are the only Macfadden papers which have ever made money:* Automotive Daily News, Investment Daily News, Philadelphia tabloid Daily News...