Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week Walter Howey tossed aside the news that he had been called in to doctor the New York Mirror, sick Hearst tabloid. There was a polite little announcement by General Director Arthur Brisbane, who dug down in his bag of trick titles, pulled one out marked "news adviser" for Walter Howey. But what Director Brisbane did not say about "News Adviser" Howey would fill a bang-up book, had already tilled a feverish play, The Front Page. For Walter Howey is the man Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns...
...Transcript, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit Free Press, many another anti-New Deal newspaper did likewise. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner hoisted red-white-&-blue flags in the Eagle's place. The New York Times and Scripps-Howard dailies everywhere left their Eagles flying. The lusty, liberal tabloid New York Daily News, first in the city to hoist the Eagle, ostentatiously hauled it down, with a biting editorial explaining that the News and the rest of the Press now had the right to work its employes longer, pay them less, or throw them out altogether...
Least concerned of all U. S. journalists over the fate of NRA was the country's most famed editor, Arthur Brisbane, who now runs Hearst's tabloid New York Daily Mirror. While his neighbor Daily News was filling every editorial page for a week with angry philippics and cartoons against the Supreme Court, Editor Brisbane happily buried NRA with a scant half-column editorial. Then he got down to subjects much nearer his soft old heart -babies and gorillas. In a resounding editorial on the Dionne quintuplets' first birthday, he pointed the inevitable Brisbanal moral...
...censorship and padlocking. This last edition of the Lampoon was an expert slam at a magazine that dishes up weak-kneed sex pictures, pointless, time-wasting fiction, amid a pseudo-highbrow atmosphere, at 50 cents per dose, instead of, as was pointed out, the price of the tabloid with the same stuff...
WALLACE IRWIN, who gave the world of letters "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum" and many other equally serious volumes, has come forward with a successfully sustained satire on the modern detective story, the dictatorial form of government, and tabloid journalism. Feeling that "in distance there is safety," Mr. Irwin affectionately dedicates his book to "Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler...