Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those of their friends on the society pages, newspapers have found that expanded society coverage is paying off in increased circulation. With the change, many a society reporter and socialite has belatedly come to recognize the truth of Alva Johnston's sardonic definition of "socialite" as "a technical tabloid term meaning a member of the human race...
...great stories of U.S. history, and the poets, professors and politicians never tire of telling it in all its phases. Now an oldtime rewrite man has moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state of the nation's security on April...
...tabloid New York Post, which likes murder stories and plays them big, last week chided the New York Times for its coverage of the Sheppard murder trial...
...What has gone wrong with British fair play?" cried London's big tabloid Daily Mirror. "For years we in this country have criticized the color bar in other countries-especially America and South Africa . . . We have also been righteous about it. For we have always believed that color prejudice had nothing to do with us ... We had better all think again...
...better papers? "When you publish a paper in a town where the Times blankets the news," says Wechsler, "papers are bound to sell flamboyance rather than quiet news coverage." But flamboyance is not necessarily zestful or exciting journalism. In New York it has often led to sameness (e.g., the tabloid News and Mirror often have the same picture and headline blanketing Page One). The presence of the Times, 20% of whose coverage is national, has also caused many other papers to try to imitate its world view instead of concentrating on news of the city. Too often, the result...