Word: tabloidism
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...supervision is a press confederacy whose members take strength from association but are permitted to flourish or flounder almost entirely on their own. Scripps-Howard papers do both, in a pattern as diversified as the U.S. press at large. Items: > Perennially third in a field of three papers, the tabloid Washington Daily News not only returns a tidy profit but has taught its bigger competitors a journalistic trick or two. Shrewdly leaving politics to the Post (Democratically inclined) and the Star (Republican), bulky, freckled Editor John O'Rourke beams his paper at the capital's sizable Negro population...
...program since Playhouse go did Kay Thompson's Eloise. It is certainly the phoniest city-room drama since The Front Page. "I went out," says the reporter hero (Nick Adams), "and I dug for it, and the deeper I dug the dirtier it got." Even the cutting is tabloid cheap. A man puts a gun at another's temple and prepares to fire. Fadeout...
Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories with the speed of a tabloid rewrite man, and for the journeyman's unvarying reason: to satisfy a desperate and constant need for money. The legend is familiar; when dun notes piled too high during the bright, wild days with Zelda, Scott could lock himself in a room and come out next morning with a story salable...
...themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh-grained honesty of its photography and the improvisational candor of its script make every tabloid cliche about the soulless city bristle with fresh life...
Died. Harry Guy Bartholomew. 78. longtime editor of the London Daily Mirror, a stout Fleet Street lord who held British journalism "too niminy piminy" and so transformed a dowager's daily into the world's first picture tabloid and still largest daily newspaper (circ. 4,593,263) by a blend of strident headlines (on Dunkirk's evacuation: BLOODY MARVELLOUS). cartoon strips and pro-Labor politics; of heart disease; in Camberley, England...