Word: tabloided
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...ancients are trying a rejuvenation method which, before war's end, many a newspaper may try. The method is also calculated to cut costs-but both of them claim that cost-cutting is not their object. Last week the New York Post, oldest in Manhattan (founded 1801), turned tabloid. And Denver's Rocky Mountain News announced that it would make the same change this week...
Differences are that Yank will be a tabloid, carry photographs. Still bigger difference will be the problem of distribution and reporting, from Ireland to Australia. Contributions from Yank's world network of soldier reporters will go to Manhattan headquarters, where a staff of about 40 will put it together. Forces overseas will receive their copies via destroyer. Where editions can be printed locally, mats will be flown from Manhattan. With readers in all quarters of the globe, its big editorial problem will be to match the rank-&-file intimacy of Stars & Stripes, whose editors worked within hearing distance...
...Mirror, founded by the late Lord Northcliffe and the world's first great successful tabloid, is no small game. It has over 2,000,000 circulation and is the most popular paper with British servicemen. It is neither pacifist nor defeatist, but it has unmercifully ribbed the blunders of the British war effort. Its Columnist Cassandra,* a bespectacled, vitriolic Irish hefty named William Connor, has furnished most of the ammunition...
...Blame? Angry and shocked, the country scowled around for a scapegoat. The blistered decks were scarcely cool when New York's tabloid PM released the story of a gumshoe investigation, made weeks before the fire by Reporter Edmund Scott, a story which PM had suppressed at the time because it was "a blueprint for sabotage." Masquerading as a longshoreman, Scott had got a job with a crew hired to lug furniture ashore...
Largely because Edward Arnold makes a convincing underworld mogul and Edward G. Robinson a passable newspaper editor, "Unholy Partners" is a fairly entertaining cross between the rise of a modern tabloid and the familiar gangster story. If they had cut the pretty blurbs about the ethics of American journalism, this film would have been a well paced cops-and-robbers epic. As it stands, the action sags hopelessly about every fifteen minutes and Hollywood getting out a newspaper remains strictly authentic Hollywood, strictly unauthentic journalism. Laraine Day's presence is welcome, not so much because she loves Robinson bravely...