Word: tabloidization
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...Cuban air force too. Diario, reputedly the oldest Spanish-language paper in the hemisphere, is dropped into Cuba two days after publication in a 12-in. by 6-in. packet, tightly folded so as to resist the wind. About 5.000 copies of the two-color, 20-24 page tabloid are sold in Miami; 2,500 go to Cuba by parachute and other means as the gift of Editor José Ignacio Rivero and the twelve-man staff who fled for their lives when the paper was taken over last May. Regarded as the unofficial spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church...
Folded into all 1,300,000 copies of an issue of the United Auto Workers' weekly tabloid Solidarity last month was a provocative four-page insert calculated to catch the eye of each of its estimated 5,000,000 readers. Its cover page was alive with a drawing of a sheet-hooded, club-carrying Ku Klux Klanner standing menacingly next to the Statue of Liberty. Caption: WHICH Do You CHOOSE? LIBERTY or BIGOTRY. Printed inside was the full text of the rousing speech by U.A.W.-endorsed Jack Kennedy to Protestant ministers in Houston...
News for the Natives. But along with Zik's polemics went a modest daily dose of unadulterated news. In 1947, observing with interest the growing Nigerian appetite for news, British Tabloid Publisher Sir Cecil Harmsworth King (the London Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group) picked up the Daily Times, an unimpressive Lagos paper of 7,000 circulation, which had stayed out of Nigeria's East-West...
...Books by Pete Martin and Gerold Frank. These autobiographers occupy a comfortable limbo between spook status and live authorship, and get prominent bylines for their as-told-to confessions of the tabloid famous. But preconfessed bunko is nevertheless bunko. And even expert spirit writing makes all autobiographies sound alike...
...dictator emptied his desk and closed his office in the National Palace, where-whether officially President or not-he has ruled the country for 30 years. He fired his brother Hector, who for the past eight years has been stand-in President. He sent his son Ramfis, the onetime tabloid-headline playmate of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor, off to Geneva to "advise" the Dominican delegation to a trade conference. He bounced two lesser Trujillos from high government jobs. And he named himself chief Dominican delegate to the United Nations...