Word: tabloidism
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London's Daily Mirror was agape. Titling him the "Duke of Savvy," the tabloid editorialized: "This man Philip is talking horse sense." The speech at the Foreign Press Association was straight from the horse's mouth anyway, since the monarchy got most of the royal husband's attention. "It has to be all things to all persons," he confessed. "Of course, it cannot do this when it comes to being all things to traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder...
...immediate cause of death was anemia: the Reporter simply ran out of money. Never able to pay its own way, the tabloid managed to avert death only by desperate expedients. At the end, more than half the Reporter's staff was still unsalaried and subsisting entirely on meager strike benefits: up to $79 a week. Even its offset press was leased for a token $10 a year from the benevolent International Typographical Union...
...temporary news vacuum. Moreover, Portland readers seemed undisposed to support a union paper that tried so hard to avoid the union label that it packed as much punch as a Sunday supplement. Although the Oregonian and the Journal have together lost 79,000 in circulation since the strike, the tabloid Reporter could not even attract all those defectors. At death it had barely 58,000 in paid readership...
...Hearst's tabloid Mirror, first casualty of the strike, released figures that added up to a graphic explanation of how the long, enforced silence had hastened the paper's end. The Mirror was already in distressing shape when the strike began; its last profit...
Inside News, a flamboyant tabloid with a prurient fixture of horror ("He Tickled Her to Death") and sex, told its readers that "The Undergrads Are Oversexed" at Harvard and other Ivy schools. The current number of Whisper, a slick covered bi-monthly what promises "The Stories Behind the Headlines," Harries a lengthy account of "Harvard's Special Night course...