Word: tabloidism
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...When the tabloid-size Trib hit New York City last January, it had a print order of 200,000 copies, an innovative magazine-style format, a highly automated production system, a blue-chip board of politically conservative backers and a priceless reservoir of good wishes from a city that had not seen a major new daily in seven years. As the paper's bus ads trumpeted, THE TRIB: IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED SOONER...
...tabloid (first-year circulation goal: 200,000) is expected to be editorially conservative. Its board of directors includes James Buckley, former Conservative-Republican Senator from New York, whose political aide and consultant Saffir used to be. Ousted as chairman of the board last October was former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, who Saffir claimed was trying to use the paper to further his own political ambitions. Simon, however, remains a stockholder...
...soft pretzels (eaten with mustard), snapper soup (eaten with sherry) and heroic sandwiches (eaten with trepidation, and called hoagies). Last week another item-well-dressed cheesecake-was added to the local menu when Canadian Publisher Pierre Péladeau served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half of its 60-odd pages...
...Journal is the first major daily to be started in the city of hoagies in 51 years, and the city's three largest dailies have begun protecting their flanks against the invader. The afternoon tabloid Daily News (circ. 232,000) is about to hire six new reporters for its 85-member news staff. The self-consciously respectable morning Inquirer (circ. 412,000) has added more racing news and gossip. At the evening Bulletin (circ. 556,000), reporters say privately that pressure is on to be livelier and more competitive...
...style has a touch of Raymond Chandler; the Fazenda case has a fleeting similarity to the unsolved 1940s Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles. The novel continually echoes tabloid history to enliven its central incident: a 28-year-old murder known as the "case of the Virgin Tramp...