Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that he had proved himself to be a good democrat and a tireless advocate of Franco-German friendship. That seemed good enough for most Germans. Both opposition parties pledged not to attack him for the Nazi ties. The German press seemed to agree with the mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung that "Kiesinger has to blame himself for nothing more than youthful error...
...Politika Ekspres. And then there was that center spread of a nearly nude Carroll Baker that distracted readers from proper appreciation of a front-page cut of Tito surrounded by smiling workers. But the official complaints were notably mild. All Yugoslavia accepts the fact that a frank and breezy tabloid press has become firmly established...
...networks, Cronkite is happy to say, have shown considerable restraint and responsibility in not stooping to a tabloid treatment of the news, the crime and sex coverage that he is sure could quadruple their audience. They are moving, he believes, not in the direction of sensationalism but toward greater professionalism. The widespread use of communications satellites, he says, will cut down the high costs of landline charges; and with the savings, he hopes, the networks will build up their news-gathering services. Further miniaturization of equipment will make TV teams less obtrusive when they go out on a story...
...Manhattan's East Village Other, initiator of the Underground Press Syndicate. A 16-page tabloid published twice monthly, EVO boasts a circulation of 10,000 after just eight months on the streets. "We are in favor of evolution, not revolution," says Managing Editor Allan Katzman, 29, a poet with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the City College of New York. "We hope to transform the middle class by internal and external stimuli, by means of media and LSD." Though EVO is obsessed with LSD, Katzman still finds generous space for an avant-garde international survey...
...Angeles Free Press, another 16-page tabloid, comes out weekly, claimed a circulation of 9,000 on its second birthday last week. Editor and Publisher Art Kunkin, 38, a former machinist who studied at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, sees his paper as "a forum for free expression of critical comment and dialogue." Kunkin keeps a closer eye on local problems than does EVO, started a commendable series of sociological studies of Watts almost immediately after the riots last summer. The Free Press fills its classified column with ads that are often explicit and occasionally written...