Word: tabloidism
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...earnest effort to revamp the Trib has also included a refurbishing of the Sunday edition. Comics have been switched from four-color to black and white, and tucked deep inside; Peanuts now runs second to front-page news. The short-lived tabloid "Lively Arts" section has been returned to full size; book reviews are once more printed as a separate section. Lively makeup and lavish use of pictures lighten the "Forum" section, which reviews the week's news. All this has yet to boost Sunday circulation, but the Trib's television ads make a virtue of leanness...
Such episodes are rare in the staid life of the Harvard community, however. And although Leverett House was once branded as a dope den by a Boston tabloid, and Confidential detailed the perversions of Claverly, the University is far from a hideout for perverts and criminals. Crime has had its big moments, though...
Lowell's talky, even sometimes tabloid tone is more appropriate to the moderns...
...series of Sunday afternoon talks on ABC. CBS Reports last week began its worthy three-part interview with Eisenhower (see THE NATION), and Commentator David Brinkley began sounding off on his own, opening his Journal with a mordant discussion that ranged from the U.S. outdoor billboard industry to British tabloid journalism...
William Randolph Hearst is dead-as dead as yesterday's tabloid. But his name, like a faded headline, is a yellowing memento of the Yellow Age of U.S. journalism, when the potentate of the penny press sometimes seemed to wield more power than the President, when live bullets flew and dead bodies fell in circulation wars, and a newspaper was often the last place anybody looked for news...