Word: tabloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SUPERFICIAL, erroneous in places and uncritical throughout, "Jazz Journalism" is nevertheless a clever defense of the tabloid press and a direct rebuke to the upper classes which abhor it. Both the demand for such a press and the fact that it is avidly read, by these same upper classes is clearly demonstrated...
...book describes the birth of America's first tabloid, Joseph Medill Patterson's "Illustrated Daily News," which appeared on June 26, 1919, modeled on the already successful English tabloids. It kept on appearing and today it is the largest selling paper in the nation, yet for three years Mr. Hearst never saw in it a potential rival. When he did it was too late. Mr. Bessie then launches into a dry examination of the contents of the "Daily News" down thought the years, showing the tabloid formula and the current (if invisible) trend towards straight news, and concludes with circulation...
...words "morbidity," "propaganda," "sadism," "malice" and "fabrication" do not once appear. Mr. Bessie seems unaware of persecutions and deliberate hoaxes for editorial or sensational reasons. He gives credit to the ingenuity of none but the most scurvy editors, and the important question of whether the public demanded the tabloid or whether unprincipled publishers forced it down the public's throat, Mr. Bessie leaves unsolved...
...hostile" uniforms--hues of the American Legion, the Cambridge police, the anti-Red sharpshooters, the purple gown of state legislators. Nor are civilian denizens unknown. Teachers antiquated in theory and doctrine, full of fine words, but lacking research, have been glimpsed. Sometimes the Gatling-gun tattoo of a tabloid printing press has been audible, and this sound has been diagnosed by some as the basic machinery which motivates the horse so powerfully...
...circulation director of the tabloid New York News...