Word: tabloidism
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...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...
...force is a publisher, the press lord of a tiny trade-journal fiefdom that churns out eight publications that few Americans have ever heard of?except for one. He is John Burr Fairchild, 43, the head of Fairchild Publications and the boss of Women's Wear Daily, the terror tabloid of the fashion world. Fairchild is a puzzling study of opposites. Though the columns of WWD are filled with the social doings of what he calls the "Beautiful People," he resolutely shuns their company and their entertainments. Though he makes his living following fashion, he insists that it cannot...
...reads one of several thank-you notes that President Richard Nixon has written to Francis M. ("Jack") Flynn, publisher of New York's hardhatted morning tabloid, the Daily News. It is not a new correspondence; Nixon also wrote to the News when he was Vice President and later, when he was out of office trying to get back in. (In those days the letters were signed "Dick.") So it was no big surprise when the President dropped by the News offices in Manhattan last week for a friendly chat with Flynn and his top editors. No wonder, either, that...
...those who don't know-a classification that nowadays excludes most of the population of Chicago-Roger Ebert is the young (27), brash film critic of the city's sprightly tabloid, the Sun-Times. Ebert's chatty, erudite reviews -abetted after hours at O'Rourke's by a repertory of trade union songs, trivia recollections and Irish anecdotes, boisterously rendered at a drop of Tullamore Dew-have elevated him to what Saturday Review Film Critic and Friend Arthur Knight calls "a cultural resource of the community...
Newsday's growth, since its founding in 1940 in a converted garage with a $50,000 investment, has been only slightly less meteoric. From an initial press run of 30,000 copies, the smartly turned-out tabloid has grown to a circulation approaching half a million, seventh among all evening papers in the nation. Newsday's strength in such areas as New York entertainment and sports is particularly attractive to the Times Mirror Co., which, with the Washington Post, operates a national news service...