Word: tabloidism
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...review of books and a review of people, this new tabloid-size magazine has shown some strengths and some ugly deficiencies. It is impossible to say which way the pressures of revenue, prestige, politics and the quest for fame will push the Review, or, indeed, whether it will survive at all. Whatever happens, there is nothing to match it. The New York Times Book Review cannot begin to offer the freshness and possibilities of the Review. Book Week, the Herald Tribune's new excursion into publishing, may undercut the Review financially but in no other sense do they compete. Anyone...
...dailies. The New York Post cut him loose for not writing about pretty girls during the week after Pearl Harbor; Goldberg, who normally loves such assignments, churlishly refused on the ground that, considering the times, there were more important subjects to write about. On PM, the long-defunct intellectual tabloid, he was asked so many times to gather man-on-the-street reaction to stirring events that he once rebelled and interviewed 35 New Yorkers all named Hyman Goldberg. To his surprise, his story was a resounding success...
...Guardian splenetically accused fellow journalists of being little better than prostitutes and purveyors of pornography (though in fact, it carried more words on the case than the tabloid Daily Mirror). But for all its excesses, it was the press that was largely responsible for bringing the Profumo affair to light. And it was the normally pro-government London Times which insisted from the first that the case posed a moral issue...
...American journalism. In Chicago it was the incomparable Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, in Washington the acid Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, in New York the swashbuckling Captain Joseph Medill Patterson. More recently, a raven-haired bundle of energy named Alicia Patterson Guggenheim bore the family banner with her Long Island tabloid, Newsday. Last week at the age of 56, Alicia Patterson died, and for the first time in 143 years no member of the dynasty ran a newspaper...
...Hempstead in 1940, Alicia was disappointed: "I'm afraid it looks like hell." It was soon looking better as Alicia poured her energies into the paper, bringing it to life with a healthy mixture of news, irreverence and breeziness. Newsday's format was novel for a tabloid, with large type, three-column width on its pages, and a center Feature section stuffed in upside down for handy removal. Her interest covered every field-from politics to sin in the choir loft. When a frustrated editor asked her what she wanted in the paper, she shouted back the Patterson...