Word: pander
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...story has the strong smell of dreary sordidness. Degeneration is the theme; a playright and his actress wife, the characters. The playwright will not cheapen his work to pander to the petty tastes of the masses whose francs support the Theatre. He lives on the earnings of his wife. To gain food and clothing for him, she sells herself to a succession of stage-door libertines. He gets the food and clothes. Finally he turns to a variety of unpleasant activities, brings the curtain down by strangling his wife in drunken frenzy...
...fruitful soil for farming and for journalism. The public likes it. The populace enjoys seeing mud from a rolling wheel spatter the honest citizen. In journalism, as in commerce, there are always some ready to pander to the public taste...
...professing high moral purpose, it supplies incentives to base conduct, such as are to be found in details of crime and vice, publication of which is not demonstrably for the general good. Lacking authority to enforce its canons, the journalism here represented can but express the hope that deliberate pander to vicious instincts will encounter effective public disapproval or yield to the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation...
...must be a great relief and rather an encouragement to those same reformers to find that their notoriously proper neighbors across the water are suffering from the same lamentable public sentiment which supports our pink and green and yellow journals to "pander to the blood lust of a host of lowbrow readers". In this part of the world there have been so many murder stories recently, reported of necessity by even the best newspapers, that the genuine highbrow (a species which appears to be dangerously near extinction in the welter of blood and bullets) must discontinue his newspaper subscriptions altogether...
...ideal of things which are at trainable, is a paper which is honest, which does not palm off on its readers advertisements as news matter, which is not blindly partisan, which does its best to improve its readers, and does not pander to its lowest tastes in order to roll up a large circulation...