Word: tabloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME-worthy Tabloid Sirs: I am not only a cover-to-cover reader of TIME but my freakishness includes the insane longing for a similar version of the day's news to make me forget the trials of a daily subway jaunt...
...long suffering straphanger, I constantly envy the tabloid addicts the ease and comfort in which they follow the day's events in yellow-journalese...
...Truth Behind the News," by Margaret Gilman, is a denunciation of the tabloid school of journalism. The attacks on this particular form of literary prostitution have been too frequent in recent days for this addition to the fold to be startling in its addition to the fold to be startling in its originality; nevertheless; it is interesting, and piques the intelligence through its violence. "A Housewife Looks at Advertising" is an article of the same class, though on a subject not quite so hackneyed; due of course, to the dependence of most periodicals on their advertising this fester has received...
...becoming reluctance he emerged at last, only to lose composure when one of the hawks shouted the old cry, "Tell the old fool to turn around!" Shaw, outraged, seized the cameraman and shook him by the shoulders. Meantime other cameras clickety-clicked, including that of the smart Daily News (tabloid) man who had perched above for a hardboiled newshawk's-eye view. That day and the next, before he departed, Shaw was treated by the Press as he has taught the Press to treat him, as the Jimmy Walker of the intelligentsia...
...brag about the city and back-pat its bigwigs; and, after the success of The New Yorker, a rash of local smart-charts broke out, flourished briefly, faded away. Buffalo last week was the scene of a new kind of small-city journalistic enterprise. Out came a four-page tabloid to review and, where possible, go behind the week's local news, develop news personalities. It was called Trend (price: 5?), "Buffalo's Newsweekly of Fact and Opinion." "Frankly TIMEly in air," said its editors, "it will carry in addition an opinionated undertone." Authors of the undertone...