Word: tabloidism
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...fruit seller at the haymarket greets a regular: "Pedro goes tonight." On a break at a downtown construction site, workers open their tabloid Boston Heralds from the back, where the sports are. Out in Wellesley, lawn sprinklers kick on, and investment managers for Fidelity pad sleepily up wide driveways, flipping through sections of the self-serious Boston Globe, past Nation, Business and Arts to the baseball coverage...
...meet up with paparazzi, quickly eat something (the more colorful, the better: Think strawberries, peaches, etc.), smile disarmingly, and then open your mouth to expose your barely chewed food. Sure, there'll be a few embarrassing photos for the first few months, but after a while, all the tabloid editors will get tired of printing their "Prince William's See-Food" spread and you'll be off the hook...
...digital ink can be printed together with the circuits for wireless transmission onto a generously sized tabloid sheet tough as Tyvek. The tabloid sits on the table all day, as news articles come and go. All the typographic conventions of a newspaper or magazine are obeyed, but the paper doesn't come and go. It stays...
...Young tabloid reporter discovers the "trash" his paper prints is all true...
This is what passes for drama here? It's almost laughable to anyone who has looked at the back page of a New York tabloid anytime in the recent past...