Word: tabloidism
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...liquid late-night beat and even some bona fide guests could not gain entry to a supper sponsored by Rolling Stone magazine because of unexpected crowds of gate crashers. The problem was that veteran Prankster Dick Tuck had printed thousands of counterfeit invitations in Reliable Source, an irreverent daily tabloid that he published during the convention...
...corn. "It's only a style, and styles go out of style," says Sam Zelman, whose ABC station in Washington has recently hired a respected ' network reporter, David Schoumacher, as anchor man. But the bad news is that some stations have replaced happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster area. Items are tailored to the attention threshold of the least patient viewer. That is what happens when...
...tabloid Mirror flayed the Times for "prejudiced and intemperate political judgment." Author Auberon Waugh wrote to the Times: "Your decision to suppress those aspects of the news which displease you strike me as differing only in its effectiveness from the Russian model...
...from his intelligence beat to general assignment, ostensibly so that he could report on stories in which he is not personally involved. CBS executives in New York are reportedly deeply displeased by the Pike papers episode, partly because Schorr gave the papers to the Village Voice, a Manhattan weekly tabloid. One executive explained that Schorr's link with the "ant10-Establishment" Voice had political overtones that might be unsettling to some CBS affiliates...
...Tabloid headlines across a bevy of the nation's leading newspapers on Saturday afternoon etched the name of Harvard football coach Joe Restic as the front-runner for the head coaching post of the Philadelphia Eagles...