Word: tabloidism
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There is no real personal conflict, not any genuine speculation over the sources of Churchill's greatness--merely tabloid figures seen through the spectacles of high school history books and pop psychology...
...politician known to a few as "The Mini-Fascist." Tower is not only to the right of Nixon on most issues, but he seriously feared that the President's trips to Moscow and Peking would be major concessions to the Communists. Recently, Tower was forced to put out a tabloid most of which was devoted to refuting charges made against him by Sanders. Prior to that time, he had not even mentioned Sanders by name, directing most of his campaign rhetoric against McGovern...
...Volz was one of the lucky ones when the tabloid Daily News (circ. 207,000) was bought and closed down by its afternoon rival, the Evening Star (circ. 303,000). He will be one of 30 or so staffers absorbed by the Star. Some 570 others will be out of work unless they can catch on elsewhere in the 17-paper Scripps-Howard chain, which founded the Daily News...
...like nothing better than the good dirt on their local alderman (not to mention their next door neighbor). The Traveler represented Old Boston--the conservative establishment and the middle class working families who enjoy breakfast much more when the news is good news. The Record American, bless its tabloid soul, carried the numbers every day, ran lots of patriotic and sensational stories on subversives and fires, and generally catered to the city's hardcore working class people. But while the Record's editorial approach clearly came out on top in the latest merger, the transition destroyed the fibre by which...
...RECORD, for its part, sacrificed much of its personality in order to capitalize on its new plant. The old tabloid format went down the drain, along with the daily full front-page photo of The Drama of Everyday Life (kids' cats stuck in trees with firemen on the way; the near rescue of a suicide victim; the wreckage of the car and truck that crashed head-on at 80 mph, miraculously killing only seven out of eight occupants). The front-page maze of banner headlines luring readers to inside pages gave way to a single full-column headline atop...