Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is one life in the affairs of a state?" The point of the two versions seemed much the same and, in any case, General Butler's lawyer could not recall that he had ever mentioned the Vanderbilt name in connection with the story. But the onetime tabloid publisher spoke of suing General Butler, hinted darkly of the revelations he might make...
...years ago this month) said of the present-day curiosity-serving press: "[It] has had as its central motive the immediate satisfaction of the largest number of people. . . . [It] escaped . . . the tutelage of government, fell under the tutelage of the masses." No defense for the yellow newspaper and the tabloid could Editor Lippmann find on the ground that "it gives the public what it wants." Rather he saw its only justification in that it gave the U. S. a press "freer from hidden control than any in the world." At the same time he judged that it was slowly, surely...
...Examinations that were so glorious until Mencken and the literary smart set made sauerkraut out of them. In that mind's eye of his that has enfolded so much nebulosity, the Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through the halos of its many Saints, he watches Bluebooks and blaming youth ruffie the innocuous desuetude of Memorial Hall. In both new and old, he sees halfbaked meats and widow...
Five Star Final is this season's newspaper play. But, unlike its more cynical predecessors, it is an earnest paean of hate directed against tabloid journalism. By the middle of Act II the abuse has become so boundless that it is flogging a dead horse...
...Post's publishers (Scripps-Howard) accepted the handsome offer of its rival Sun to publish from the Sun plant. Post and Sun have been friendly rivals since the Post was founded in 1922, but slightly less friendly since two years ago when the Post abandoned its tabloid form to compete as a full-size evening paper...