Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Screeched the Dallas News: "The tabloid press and yellow journals whose Peeping Tom tactics have made his private life hideous have no place in self-respect-ing communities...
...lawlessness, U. S. editors began looking for a personal Herod to blame for the Lindbergh exile. Most of the editorial pack first turned on plump, young Governor Hoffman, suspected of putting his foot in the Hauptmann case for reasons of politics and publicity. The Newark (N. J.) Evening News flayed him for "appalling meddling." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that even if he were "guiltless of playing politics ... he has at least affronted the elementary proprieties." The Boston Herald snarled at "the brazenly publicized doubts of New Jersey's unseeing, unperceiving Governor...
...Newspapers more than kidnappers," thundered the self-righteous Christian Science Monitor, "have exiled the Lindberghs. . . . Unless one has been besieged in his home, has had his life endangered on scores of landing fields, has had every move even on his wedding trip watched by news spies, has been forced to his wits' end to circumvent photographers who honor no plea for a second son after one feels the first has had 'the finger' put on him by undue publicity-unless one has had just a taste of Colonel Lindbergh's experience with a press that respects...
...taking episode reported in the New York Times as an example of yellow journalism at its worst. As every alert editor already knew, the pictures were taken by Hearst photographers, printed in Hearst's New York American and tabloid New York Mirror, distributed by Hearst's International News Photos. But for four days not one editor dared to mention that prime fact. Meantime, asked by Reuters News Agency for his opinion of the Lindbergh flight, Publisher Hearst used it for attacks on the New Deal and aliens. Wrote he in part: "It would certainly seem that a government...
Only apparent defender of the Yellow Press was the Patterson-McCormick tabloid New York Daily News, which cracked: "If the country is going to pot (which we don't think it is), it is not because Lindbergh has left us. A run-out by one harried and frightened prominent citizen does not indicate that the mass of decent people are in danger of being engulfed by the underworld...