Word: tabloidia
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Shakespeare, as well as Gibbon, Mommsen and other amateur detectives pinned the crime on Brutus; but Mr. Irwin's hero, Manlius Scribo, star reporter on "The Evening Tiber," the first experiment in tabloidia, had his own ideas about the murder. And Manny Scribo was on the spot...
...distinction between Mirror and Graphic is hazy to the chance observer, it is bold as a banner headline to Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau of the Mirror.To him it is the difference between outmoded pornography and the beginning of a new "Tabloidia" in which he implicitly believes. He was the porno-Graphic's first managing editor. He stuck with it for five years until, sick of dishing up nothing but sex, scandal, crime, faked news & faked pictures to an illiterate circulation, he quit and went to the Mirror (TIME. July 22, 1929). There he could print at least some legitimate...
Obviously autobiographical is Hot News although the exploits recounted are a composite of all Tabloidia. Probably for fear of libel. Author Gauvreau has veiled his characters with flimsy disguises which re quire no seasoned newsmen to penetrate. Himself, as protagonist, he calls Jonathan Peters, his tabloid, The Comet...
...flight will be a relief. If I make it, my paper will have something to talk about. If I don't . . . what the hell's the difference?' " Soon afterward Editor Peters' endurance breaks. He quits, goes to Paris, tries to shake off the fever of Tabloidia, finds himself too deeply infected. Finally, in an improbable transoceanic telephone conversation with his most loyal reporter who has gone over to the Lantern, he consents to return and succeed his old friend Wayne there. Exultantly cries the reporter: "Sugar Plum is suing Uncle Cocoa...
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