Word: tabloidism
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Brain Rust. In a refreshingly novel way, Hoot Owl follows standard newspaper style. It has movie, TV and record reviews; it prints a clever pictorial TV log for those who cannot read time; it includes society, travel and sports columns. The tabloid was started by Dane Edwards, 34, owner of a small professional speakers' bureau, to help some neighborhood children. It now operates with a staff of eight (unpaid except for soda pop and snack expenses), a waiting list of 23 and a mandatory retirement age of 16. Edwards and his wife Janie keep their editing and layout help...
...Brazil, a country with a military government that knows exactly how free the press should be, nine cartoonists and editors of the satirical weekly O Pas-quim ("The Rag"), have all been in prison for over a month. Uncharged. The tabloid has gone on publishing, blandly stating on its front page that it has been "completely automated." Last week Brazilian police tired of the joke, suspended "The Rag," then lifted the ban without explanation. The staffers remain in jail; "The Rag" remains "automated...
...wrinkled grayish pink covering. It is the seat of such processes as thinking, judgment, speech and that tricky blessing, memory. According to D.S. Halacy Jr., an experienced popularizer of science, if the cortex were ironed flat, it would approximate the size of a newspaper page. Whether regular or tabloid size remains anybody's guess. But then, as Halacy makes totally clear, all the really important things about the brain are mysterious...
...underground" programs superimposed on the official slate meant that we suffered perhaps 80-odd speakers where half that number might have better served. Probably we could have done without contributions made by the circulation manager for a Boston tabloid, the biologist who touted a miracle bug-killer (in which, it developed, he held some proprietary interest), the Time-Life poobah who saw no First Amendment dangers in newsmen being required to surrender their notes or tapes to Big Brother's agents in Washington, or the faculty-tie who severely lobbied in behalf of Foundations remaining untaxed despite those many abuses...
...which would be quite fine, were it not for Wexler's insistence on mixing politics with the fun and games. Not real politics, but tabloid-style politics. Rabble-rousing that titillates all by playing on everyone's prejudices to no one's advantage...