Word: tabloidism
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...nation's third largest paper, the news last week was the News itself. The New York City tabloid (daily circ. 1.4 million) settled out of court, reportedly for $3.1 million, with four black journalists who had charged racial discrimination in promotions, raises and assignments between 1979 and 1982. It was the first such case against a major newspaper to go before a jury, which ruled for the plaintiffs in April. The agreement came after three days of out-of-court bargaining that took place in the trial's second stage to set monetary damages for the four journalists. The News...
...archetypes: mom at the bottom, stepdad at the top, daughter in between poised to destroy the black widower. Donald E. Westlake based his sleek script on the case of a New Jersey serial killer. Director Joseph Ruben brings his no-nonsense classicism to what could have been just another tabloid horror story. And Schoelen is the most appealing teen in recent movies. But the triumph is O'Quinn's. With his a- mite-too-wide smile, unctuous pieties and neatly calibrated spasms of rage, he creates a paradigm head of the postnuclear family: an evangelist of father love and blood...
...both. But since hypocrisy is as endemic in the press as it is in politics, the press defended its behavior by stressing the importance of the story. Importance did not require a competition to see who could get the sexiest picture of Donna Rice with Hart, which the scandal tabloid National Enquirer...
...stories and sometimes producing sprightlier writing than the Times, Hearst seems unsure what to do with its laggard child. Company officials, especially Robert Danzig, general manager of Hearst newspapers, are chronically indecisive about a redesign, despite having commissioned five prototypes over the past eight years, including versions of a tabloid format favored by Acting Editor John Lindsay. He quit in disgust in February. Lindsay is not alone; the positions of publisher, managing and executive editor and art director remain vacant...
...arrangement would suit the founder, who in his will avoided giving his sons control of the company. Besides, why should any of the Hearsts be unhappy? Five are listed among Forbes' 400 richest Americans, and the company is prospering. No longer synonymous only with tabloid sensationalism and the gaudy splendors of San Simeon, the firm seems intent on making a good corporate name for itself by sponsoring a seven-part PBS series called The Presidency and the Constitution. William Randolph Hearst Sr. would probably be pleased, but his father George would be even happier, glad that his son never took...