Word: tabloided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit Tribune was burned out, and the outspoken tabloid News rose from its ashes. Edward Scripps worked up in three years from newsboy to legislative reporter. His sister Ellen Browning Scripps (TIME, Feb. 22, EDUCATION) joined the family group as rewriter and condenser. In after years, Edward was to remain very close to this sister throughout all his activities...
...course is based essentially on knowledge of the rules of the game. It contains a masterly tabloid exegesis of the law in such finical situations as a player's throwing his cap at a passing ball, two runners on one base, premature decisions (e. g., a bunt declared foul rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon...
Blatantly delighted at this revelation, that notorious U. S. tabloid, the New York News, exulted: "BERGDOLL PROVES...
...paper as a party organ this policy materially impairs it in exercise of a public purpose, the dissemination of fact news among the people. The unheralded entrance of partisanship into news columns, subjects the less discerning reader to a most powerful and intangible mode of convincing namely, tabloid indication and constant veiled repetition of a doctrine, an insinuation, or an attitude...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is a wealthy and energetic 27-year-old who has reported news for Publisher Hearst's newspapers, built up a news service of his own, built up three successful tabloid dailies in California and Florida. He has a considerable patrimony but may justly boast that his success is due not solely to that but to his name and his not inconsiderable journalistic talent...