Word: tabloidism
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Died. Robert Gordon Shand, 70, longtime (1946-63) managing editor of the New York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., with a current circulation of 2,000,000 daily, 3,000,000 Sunday; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...
...fact that he had proved himself to be a good democrat and a tireless advocate of Franco-German friendship. That seemed good enough for most Germans. Both opposition parties pledged not to attack him for the Nazi ties. The German press seemed to agree with the mass-circulation tabloid Bild Zeitung that "Kiesinger has to blame himself for nothing more than youthful error...
...Politika Ekspres. And then there was that center spread of a nearly nude Carroll Baker that distracted readers from proper appreciation of a front-page cut of Tito surrounded by smiling workers. But the official complaints were notably mild. All Yugoslavia accepts the fact that a frank and breezy tabloid press has become firmly established...
...drastic change in newspaper styles can be traced directly to the Yugoslav Communist Party's plain and plodding official newspaper, Borba. Five years ago Borba founded the tabloid Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the new paper has grown more popular as it has grown brasher. Soon the staid morning daily, Politika, got into the act with its own tabloid, Politika Ekspres. Literary quarterlies and enter tainment weeklies followed suit. Now, from the Moslem regions of the deep south to the neat towns of the Austrian border, Yugoslavians are enjoying their cheesecake as never before...
...networks, Cronkite is happy to say, have shown considerable restraint and responsibility in not stooping to a tabloid treatment of the news, the crime and sex coverage that he is sure could quadruple their audience. They are moving, he believes, not in the direction of sensationalism but toward greater professionalism. The widespread use of communications satellites, he says, will cut down the high costs of landline charges; and with the savings, he hopes, the networks will build up their news-gathering services. Further miniaturization of equipment will make TV teams less obtrusive when they go out on a story...