Word: tabloidism
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Perhaps such unskippable revelations fail to make your heart throb. Well, let us peruse the headlines of the Enquirer, an infinitely more respectable tabloid which boasts "the largest circulation of any paper in America." There is an account of escape from a bullet-riddled helicopter flying through the air, followed by the author's religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails...
...Star is worthy of a passing glance in this tabloid line-up. It boasts no accounts of the strange or bizarre; but it does provide some new insights into the lives of personalities like Connie Francis, Sammy Davis and John Wayne. (We can all rest easy once again--the Duke is back with his wife after a two-year separation, according to the Star.) The New York Times didn't have that story...
...thing about the invasion of Manhattan by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press lord, is that so far the newspaper most improved by his arrival is not his Post but its tabloid rival the New York Daily News. Though it still has the largest daily circulation of any American paper, the News's circulation has been going down. Under the editorship of Michael O'Neill, it has forsworn its vulgar and unreliable ways. It covers serious news seriously, where once it was prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing...
Murdoch had never played two-up with a newspaper, and he was eager to try for a run. So in 1956 he bought a Sunday paper in Perth for $400,000, then four years later spent $4 million for the Sydney Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid weakened by incessant circulation wars. His Sydney invasion literally touched off new fighting. When Murdoch outbid a rival publisher for an Anglican Church printing plant, the rival tried to occupy the building. Murdoch allies rounded up a gang of hammer-wielding thugs and recaptured the plant after a bloody fight. At the same time...
...next effort was an unsuccessful bid for the Washington Star. "We knew it was very difficult to buy any large viable newspaper in the U.S., except for astronomical figures," he recalls. "So I said, 'Let's start something in the popular field.' " Result: the National Star, a spirited tabloid teeming with sports, advice and mild thrills ("Ferocious swarms of man-killing bees are buzzing their way toward North