Word: tabloidism
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...allowed to spend more pounds abroad; widows and pensioners will get a one-shot, tax-free Christmas bonus of $18 each; and small businesses will be granted some relief from the tax on sales or other transfers of business assets. SANTA DENIS! cried a headline in London's racy tabloid...
Last year, Matthews' father began trying to market his predictions by advertising in "Football News," a weekly sports tabloid. Matthews pere has yet to cash in big on his prognosticating powers but this season "Football News" has begun to print young Matthews' selections every week under the heading, "Matthews' grid ratings...
...real goldmine in the tabloid may be The Citizen's Companion, a listing of meetings and demonstrations to make if you're a political activist with a Lear jet. One example is a birthday party for The Citizens for Political Action featuring Eugene McCarthy, I.F. Stone, Reps. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) and Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.), held here in Boston just last week. (You missed it.) Or there is an address to write if you're interested in helping the Institute for Policy Studies get a special prosecutor appointed to look into the murder of Orlando Letelier, the late Chilean...
...rough spots and all, Politicks is a worthy conception well carried out. Its tabloid form is very attractive--you almost want to buy it just for the pictures and for the cartoons by Ed Sorel, the Voice cartoonist who is a true inheritor of Thomas Nast's tradition of political caricature in this country, among others. The real factor of course, will be money. This week's 28-page issue contains about four pages of ads, and the general rule of thumb says that to break even about half the issue has to be advertisements. Look for a 24-page...
...resemblance between the old Trib and the new entry is coincidental. Though Saffir has chosen as editor John Denson, seventyish, who also edited the Herald Tribune (from 1961 through 1962), the new Trib will lack one important characteristic of its predecessor: news. Denson has designed a stylish, magazine-like tabloid filled with canned features from syndicates and wire services, graced with an aggressively pro-business editorial page and almost devoid of breaking stories. Saffir defends that formula, which was first presented in a June 27 preview edition, on the grounds that the city's three major dailies generally avoid...