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Human Events (circ. 62,000). Ronald Reagan once said he reads every issue of this weekly "from cover to cover." Editor Thomas Winter, 42, describes his 36-year-old tabloid as more activist and consistently conservative than National Review...
...BLUSHING, tittered a tabloid. An other coyly headlined: LADY DIANA'S SLIP...
Good Morning America, on the other hand, is like an afternoon tabloid, more frivolous but also less pretentious. The basic set is a mock suburban home, with a cozy living room and a working kitchen (for Pinkham and Child). If Brokaw is as brisk as a barrister, the easygoing Hartman, 45, is as relaxed as the family doctor, someone whom you would not mind telling about all those aches and pains. He also has a female subaltern, Joan Lunden, 30, a wholesome-looking type who is given little scope on the show, perhaps wisely. Her style of interviewing...
...story was front-page news in Britain. The day after her death, one tabloid ran a purported interview with Lady Barnett, complete with the headline "PLEASE HELP ME-I CAN'T STOP STEALING." The shopkeeper who had turned in Barnett received abusive letters. Wrote Novelist Penelope Mortimer, in the Evening Standard: "Isobel Barnett's disguise had been cracking for some time. No woman of her intelligence steals so clumsily unless she wants to get caught...
Though his efforts to change the News from a sensation-mongering tabloid into a relatively serious paper over the past decade have not stemmed the circulation slide, Editor O'Neill believes that the News's old reliance on mass circulation is "no longer valid." He plans to turn the News into a "full-service community newspaper" focused chiefly on prosperous residents of the city and its nearby suburbs-the kind of readers who could help the News attract more department-store advertising. The problem for the News will be to attract those "upscale" readers while still appealing...