Word: tabloidism
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...shuttering an operation sprung in 1859 from a gold-mining camp just blocks from its downtown Denver home, Scripps directly or obliquely blamed everything - the economy, the Internet, demographics - and everybody - Denver Post panjandrum William Dean Singleton, ignorant consumers, bloggers - for the diminished tabloid's demise. They certainly were factors. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...1990s, retail advertising began to fall off because, the thinking went, modern businesses wanted broadsheet displays, not shrunken tabloid pages. Reporting talent - disgusted with the paper's draconian management - came and went. The Rocky cut back its statewide coverage and pretty much ignored Colorado's burgeoning Hispanic and newcomer populations. The paper also committed the ultimate sin in journalism: it was boring. What did Scripps do? Reduce subscription prices, mount a few lame marketing campaigns and change the paper's name to the Denver Rocky Mountain News...
...planned to renew U.S. focus on Asia, which she suggested the Bush administration had ignored. In China, that new attitude of engagement has been cautiously welcomed. "For many years the U.S. has been accustomed to delivering its demands to China, and this situation should change," the popular nationalist tabloid Global Times put it on the morning of Clinton's arrival. "The U.S. can no longer control China, moreover make more demands...
...tabloid math, the only thing better than a picture of a celebrity is a picture of a celebrity with his or her cute kid - or in some cases, just the kid (see Suri Cruise). There's no bigger celebrity at the moment than President Barack Obama, who has already been on the cover of such august political organs as TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly. As luck would have it, Barack and Michelle Obama have two of the cutest - and therefore potentially lucrative - offspring on the planet. Beanie Babies maker Ty has already released Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia dolls...
...January 2009, British tabloid News of the World posted three-year-old video footage of Harry referring to fellow soldiers as "Paki" and "raghead...