Word: tabloidism
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Brown's fit of pique led the normally pro-Labor Daily Mirror, whose 5,000,000 circulation makes it London's largest tabloid, to take off after him. "The trouble about Mr. Brown is not that he drinks too much," said the Mirror, "but that he shouldn't drink at all. Genial George was born with so much natural ebullience that all it needs is a splash of soda to make his behavior intolerable. A double soda will, at the drop of a hat, make George the life and soul of the party...
...cadre (Communist coinage for a trained political agent), guerrilla or main-force soldier, the Viet Cong is a creature of bureaucracy, a product of his own planning?and a far cry from the tabloid image of an ignorant peasant on a senseless rampage...
...tabloid Sun-Times does not at tempt to carry as much news as the Trib, but what it does run is sharply written and attractively and conveniently presented. Directed at readers younger than the Trib's, the Sun-Times pro jects more of a personality, and Editor Emmett Dedmon's reporters are better known around town. The paper's onceover-lightly treatment of the news appeals to commuters riding buses into the city as well as to Chicago's growing Negro population. "The Sun-Times," says a onetime Chicago editor, "comes closest to being a successful...
...somewhat unkempt Elizabethan garden and 300-acre New Canaan, Conn., estate and manor house known as Waverny. Then, so that the lord should be untroubled at his nuptials, only eight guests were invited, including one local photographer, and the details were leaked only to the nation's leading tabloid society reporter...
...adults," she says, "have allowed all the protective barriers to go down. We have done away with chaperons, supervision, rules, close family relations, and privacy from the intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial exploitation of sex, tabloid reporting of sordid sexual occurrences, wholly unsupervised after-school occupations. To fill the void left by the old safeguards, youngsters must be given a bulwark of factual knowledge and orientation...