Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggling Herald American will keep going - as a tabloid...
...them. Says Grunwald: "I am convinced that the 'soft feature' approach would not have worked in the long run. As for converting the Star to a morning paper, we concluded that it would have been prohibitively expensive." The editors also considered turning it into a racy tabloid, but quickly rejected that idea as being contrary to the company's editorial tradition. Moreover, it is far from certain that such a drastic change in the Star's character would have succeeded commercially. Says Washington Publishing Analyst John Morton: "There wasn't any real solution...
...play's biggest role, Reporter Hildy Johnson, David Garrison is brash, self-possessed, life-of-the-party, winning and entirely wrong. Hildy is nearing middle age. He sees one last chance to break free, give up the tabloid follies of youth and settle down with wife, pipe, slippers and mother-in-law. Garrison's Hildy instead sees endless tomorrows. The girl he loves enough to leave the Examiner for, moreover, ought to be so enticing as to make any man question his values. At Santa Fe she comes across as a drip...
...million revitalization campaign. Once America's biggest daily, the News lost that title to the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1.9 million) in 1979. Tonight was supposed to halt the News's circulation losses (450,000 since 1975) by adding "up-scale" readers and advertisers to the morning tabloid's traditional blue-collar audience. A flotilla of special sections and dozens of new feature writers and columnists were deployed under Clay Felker, 52, the founder of New York and New West. Said Robert M. Hunt, president and publisher of the News: "This is an extraordinary undertaking intended...
...LAST KISS 'GOODNIGHT' blared the tabloid headlines in New York City last spring. The story told of a Queens high school honor student, three weeks away from graduation, who dropped off his date after a prom and then, while walking home, was shot to death on a quiet street. A week later, one of his three young assailants - Angel Claudio, a 16-year-old tenth-grade dropout - found a lawyer in the Yellow Pages and surrendered to police, admitting that he had accidentally shot the victim with a .38-cal. pistol when the student resisted an attempt...