Word: tabloidism
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...reduce the news vacuum in St. Louis, as well as supplement their weekly maximum of $65 in strike benefits, some of the unemployed journalists have pooled resources to publish a strike paper. St. Louis Today made its debut the third week of the strike, but the thrice-weekly tabloid, lacking Associated Press and United Press International service, has done little to relieve the news shortage. The 40 volunteers, working out of a vacant classroom where school desks substitute for work tables, have offered readers stories on Amtrack and the Gainesville Eight instead of concentrating on local news. The paper...
...Snob's Revenge-Read's romance twirls its waxed mustaches too wickedly. (In training for his major villainies, the parson's son also steals, pimps, and drowns a newborn baby.) Read's true gothic gift is for translating melodrama into a morality play: plotting on tabloid pulp paper while commenting on the finest India leaf. It is as a study of repentance that Read's story demands to be taken seriously...
...wacky world of show biz, the week begins on Wednesday when Variety hits the newsstands. Invariably it hits hard, and not just because the 60? tabloid sometimes carries more than 300 pages. Far superior to the average trade paper, Variety crams its columns with all the news and minutiae of the entertainment industry: exposes, grosses, mergers, failures, successes, plans, postscripts, cast additions, reviews, trends...
Managing editor Charlie Cuneo explained his team's poor showing. "I was setting up the press for our new tabloid size paper and my index finger got en ought in the rollers," he said...
...Dally News executive board, which went into early retirement Tuesday, still hasn't recovered from the trauma of publishing a tab. "We ran out of large sheets of paper one night so we just switched to tabloid format," one editor admitted. "Too much grease for my hair," another said...