Word: tabloidization
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...suggests that "we've been taught a helluva lot of Don'ts and almost no Do's." causes of apathy are much deeper and more complex than Frede's closing explanation suggests. In sum, the author fails to convince the reader that he is capable of more than a tabloid presentation of character or idea...
...entertained her last guest. When police broke into her apartment they found her strangled with her own stockings. The police moved gingerly in the case, gently questioned a number of big industrialists, finally arrested an unemployed salesman named Pohlmann, who insisted loudly that he was not the murderer. Most tabloid-reading Germans believe...
...Lost Summer is simply a muted, chillingly written version of a tabloid story. Author Davis gets down to his novelist's business as Toni finds that her familiar world is steadily rotting away because of the unease felt by the people around her. An old neighbor lady whom she has known from childhood cuts her on the street. At her summer school her instructor barely disguises his leer. Her younger sister pruriently prods her with questions. And Stan Walters shifts rapidly from guilt and remorse to jealousy and suspicion, accuses her of having invited the attack. Gradually, Toni moves...
...evidence on public problems. But in this lonely job it is good for him to have someone who is a good listener and a sympathetic friend who can serve as a sounding board." By mutual consent, his role as friend and sounding board is not a matter for tabloid parade. "We have an understanding," President Eisenhower has told friends, "that we will keep each other's confidences...
...circulation among Manhattan's seven major dailies. Under eager Brownie, who replaced brother Whitelaw as editor and chief executive officer in a 1955 family power squabble, the Trib seemed to ease up on solid reporting and sound writing as it went after circulation with frothy features and tabloid-style gimmicks...