Word: tabloidal
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...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...
...yourself features to appeal to new homeowners. But the journalistic move to the suburbs is not easy. Distribution costs are high, and competition is tough from suburban papers that cover their area with a "hometown" thoroughness no New York paper can match, e.g., Long Island's tabloid Newsday (TIME, Sept. 13). Not long ago, Captain Joe's versatile daughter Alicia Patterson, boss of Newsday, told a New York publisher: "If you come out here, we'll knock hell...
...Journal's morning tabloid sister, the Mirror, was started in 1924 with the slogan: "90% entertainment, 10% news"; it still lives up to this. The biggest attraction is Columnist Walter Winchell, plus Drew Pearson and popular comic strips (Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka, Steve Canyon...
...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...