Word: tabloidism
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...German sex scene is changing so swiftly that it fairly cries out for a journal of its own. Now it has not one but two. From the basement of a St. Pauli curio shop has emerged the St. Pauli Nachrichten, a 15? tabloid whose circulation has swelled almost as remarkably as the Sexwelle itself. First published in early 1968 by burly Hamburger Helmut Rosenberg, 33, owner of the curio shop, and by a former Der Spiegel photographer named Günter Zint, the rag has grown from a four-page novelty with a press...
...despite a price increase to 80 a copy. Last October, Murdoch acquired the dull but earnest daily Sun (circ.: 950,000) for a down-payment of $120,000-considerably less than he paid for his house on London's fashionable Sussex Square. He relaunched the Sun as a tabloid in November and it now sells 1,325,000 copies...
...with them; polls showed that as many as 84% of the public were in favor of bringing back the hangman. One dissenter was Albert Pierrepoint, the retired public executioner, who had hanged some 450 persons in his day. "I have very strong personal feelings about this," he told the tabloid Sun. "I hope Jim Callaghan gets...
Protests and Payoffs. With punchy headlines and a tabloid format, the paper unflaggingly alerts its 10,000 readers to each week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
...Princess Margaret are the scandalous bohemians; they actually stay out late at night, have been known to drink, and it is widely rumored that on occasion they even have fights?and fun. Princess Anne, Charles' younger sister, is beginning to give her aunt and uncle a run for the tabloid money. Only 17, she has lately turned from a chubby duckling into a passably delectable swan, wings through London in exotic hats and miniskirts, and recently danced on the stage with the cast of Hair (clad...