Word: tabloidism
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...tabloid newspaper. It prints no racy photographs -in fact, it prints no photographs at all. Its gourmet column dwells on such matters as the proper preparation of eel. Its travel stories tell how to avoid the plague of Americans in Paris. Its news stories read more like scholarly essays or finicky editorials, reflecting the attitude of its writing staff of 110, three-quarters of whom hold a Ph.D., law, or master's degree in literature or political science. There is scarcely any advertising; yet the paper's success seems virtually assured. Perhaps most unusual of all, the paper...
Another approach is to realize that to day's youngsters tend to detect false notes and are not readily dazzled by packaging, so the publisher simply lets young writers have their say in blunt, un affected prose on plain, tabloid-sized newsprint. Rolling Stone, the San Fran cisco-based rock-'n'-roll newspaper-mag azine, is doing well by doing just that...
...staid burghers of Zurich, so obviously part of the modern world, re acted to the unfolding murder story with a primitive moral fury that the tabloid Blick described as "terrifying." Despite the judge's plea for temperance, police cars taking the accused to and from the court needed extra protection against would-be lynchers and were covered with spittle. Newspapers received hundreds of suggestions for punishment no less demonic than poor Bernadette's exorcism. One writer suggested tying the couple to a telephone pole and "delivering them to the people's anger until their God delivered them...
...newspaper survive when its two publishers are in basic disagreement? That is the question facing the Manhattan Tribune, a weekly tabloid just started in New York. William Haddad, a member of the New York City School Board, and Roy Innis, National Director of CORE, are not only of different color-Haddad is white, Innis black-but also hold rival views on integration. Haddad is for it, Innis against. Still, the editors believe that by airing disagreements in print they can help start a dialogue between increasingly embittered white and black communities...
...cover the police courts, and the blotters, things like that. I had a typewriter, that's all. I had a little space in the house, on Newman Park, I lived with my mother there at the time. Putting out 10,000 papers in those days, an eight-page tabloid, the cost is only 75 to 80 dollars a week...