Word: tabloidism
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Taken as a whole, Murdoch's American properties, from the checkout-counter tabloid Star to trendy New York magazine, are thriving. They earned $14 million last year for his $1.5 billion international empire,*despite New York Post losses estimated at $20 million. The Chicago deal also gives Murdoch's News Corp. the Field Newspaper Syndicate, which distributes such columnists as Evans & Novak and Ann Landers...
...Times has its share of talent as well; Rokyo, movie critic Roger Ebert, and others. In addition, the paper has published award-winning investigative reports. But the Sun-Times is a tabloid, one whose weaknesses existed long before Rupert Murdoch ever saw Chicago. With few foreign bureaus, the paper relies heavily on the wire services; it often runs shortend and unexciting syndicated features; and it has two gossip columnists whose contributions often read like unused scripts for Entertainment Tonight segments. Murdoch won't have too much to change...
...once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds of blood." John Ruskin has a serpent nightmare: "It rose up like a Cobra-with horrible round eyes and had woman's, or at least Medusa's, breasts. [It] fastened on my neck." The origins of tabloid astrology can be traced to the predictions of Astrampsychus (circa A.D. 350): "Gladness of mind shows that you will live abroad"; and Napoleon 's Book of Fate (circa 1860): "For a young woman to dream that she is embraced by a gorilla means that she will have...
...first few months, Fanning has quietly shuffled editors, pushed for more investigative reporting and sharpened the editorials. This week her reshaping of the Monitor takes an even more dramatic turn: starting with Monday's edition, the once gray tabloid will sport a radically revamped layout and a new and bigger type face, and its number of daily pages will jump from 28 to 40. Page One will carry several stories, including a feature to be typeset with ragged right edges; the second page will become primarily an expanded index; the rest of the paper will be structured into distinct...
...scruffy Rolling Stones, along with Singer Steve Winwood and Guitarist Eric Clapton. Not to listen to Satisfaction, perhaps, but the svelte, silver-clad Di might have wanted to use the stoppers elsewhere. For weeks, curious Britons have been chattering about whether the Princess is pregnant again. London's tabloid Daily Mirror reported that the Princess had announced her happy condition at a family dinner in Balmoral Castle. But Buckingham Palace has maintained a proper silence about what the Princess quite reasonably says is "a private matter." When she visited a school for mentally handicapped children last week...