Word: sensationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Hearst's descent from the newspaper to the tabloid, from pardonable news-sensation to illiteracy, occurred in 1924 when he established the Mirror to compete with the Patterson-McCormick Daily News.
The McCormick family of Chicago has easily furnished its fellow countrymen with its fair share of daily news. In fact the public is inclined to let the McCormicks off now, let them out of the headlines summa cum laude. The McCormicks are wealthy, accomplished, beneficent, but their special talents and...
At the age of 36, the consumptive, nervous, hypersensitive Weber was told by a physician that he had but a few months to live, if he did not immediately take a rest and a sun cure in the South. He was considering a lucrative offer from London; Charles Kemble wished...
An hour later, when her match with Mrs. O. J. Dewhurst, a second-rank English player, had been definitely postponed, she drove up in an open Rolls Royce, sent her apologies to the Queen. She had not felt like playing, she said. Then, amid lusty English boos, she drove off...
Hadj Ahmed-el-Mokri, son of the Sultan's Grand Wazir (Prime Minister), was stricken with typhus among the first and lay in a dying condition throughout the week. For any member of the potent Mokri family to be thus stricken would have caused a sensation throughout Morocco, but the...