Word: tabloidism
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Like the Altamont myth on which it feeds, Gimme Shelter is the product of slick, tabloid sensibilities, which is not to say that the filmmakers may not be sincere. But what remonstrance is possible to someone capable of saying, as Albert did, that "I think we would have been disappointed if everything had stopped just at Madison Square Garden." It not for the Angels, and if not for Meredith Hunter, described to me by David Maysles as being dressed in a "nigger zoot suit, straight out of the nineteen-fifties, you wouldn't believe...
London's Fleet Street, the home of most of Britain's national dailies and once the newspaper capital of the world, has fallen on hard times. Just how hard became apparent in March, when the tacky tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 760,000) announced that it would cease publication. This month, the Sketch will be merged into the troubled Daily Mail (circ. 1,800,000), which turns tabloid this week in an effort to stay alive after 75 years as a standard-size sheet. As a result of the merger, 270 journalists and 1,400 production workers will lose...
CLEAR CREEK is perhaps the best of the many new ecology magazines. A quarter-fold tabloid in the manner of such hip-style San Francisco predecessors as Rolling Stone and the late Earth Times, the 500 monthly is described, somewhat pretentiously, by Editor Pennfield Jensen as "a journal of the bio-renaissance dedicated to positive thought and action. " The first issue examined in detail the whys and wherefores of the big January oil spill in San Francisco Bay and publicized a little-known fight to save an obscure Texas wilderness known as Big Thicket. The current number contains a well...
...newsstands now inundated with naughties, nudies and assorted onetime no-noes, the bestselling hard-sex publication is Screw, the tabloid that has inspired imitation by more than a dozen equally raunchy rivals...
...begun to appear. The publishers of an explicitly illustrated edition of the pornography commission's report itself were indicted by grand juries in Dallas and San Diego. The New York City Criminal Court convicted the editor and publisher of Screw, the nation's No. 1 underground sex tabloid, of publishing obscenity. In San Francisco, where everything conceivable has been seen for several years, the D.A. recently got convictions against three porno film-house proprietors, one of them for showing a movie in which a woman had intercourse with a dog, a stallion and a hog. The Supreme Court...