Word: tabloidism
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...press conference in the paper's Florida offices, the old admiral held hands with Victoria and told reporters that he had just sought permission from Soviet officials in Washington to adopt his daughter. Moments later, he was asked if he had known much about the Enquirer before the tabloid put him into the spotlight. Confessed Tate: "No, I never read...
...Harper's Bazaar. This week, for instance, W is out with a cover story on next fall's ready-to-wear collections from Paris. Though the contents of WWD and W are similar, the look and feel of the two differ markedly: WWD is a newsprint tabloid while W is a full-size newspaper printed on heavier stock with more lavish color illustrations. A Quality Publication, as W might...
...pressures with extensive cost cutting. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, TIME, CBS and dozens of other major news organizations all have hiring freezes. The Christian Science Monitor is hiking its advertising and subscription rates and dropping some 100 employees. The Monitor is also switching to tabloid size in April, a move that will save $100,000 a year in paper costs. Newspaper Guild employees at the Washington Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington...
...Irish extremists retaliated by throwing fire bombs into several Irish-owned shops, homes and pubs. Lesser but ugly incidents are commonplace. At Charing Cross subway station, a man who had tried to squeeze onto a crowded train was manhandled when other passengers discovered he was Irish. Headlined the raucous tabloid...
...raise, from $26,000 to $30,000, for Liddy, who had just shifted over from his job as an Ehrlichman aide to handle political intelligence and legal matters for the re-election committee. In these and later memos, Haldeman approved such trivia as the idea of starting a tabloid for the campaign to get news to the organization, and the request by Maurice Stans, the re-election committee's finance chief, for permission to eat in the White House mess. Haldeman accepted without comment the news that Political Adviser Harry Dent had counseled that President Nixon could break "without...