Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publishing reached the acme of specialization last week when the first issue of Divorce appeared. It was printed on cheap paper, eight pages, tabloid newspaper size. It contained few advertisements, only one photograph. Newsstands hawked it for 10? a copy. But it had a purpose. Its leading editorial said so: "The purpose of Divorce [a weekly] is not to pander to the seeker for the sensational, but to serve, in such measure as it can, to preserve the sanctity of the American home. Divorce may be seemingly sensational in title, appearance and the character of its news, but it serves...
...Moore hinted that he might make of the Mirror and Advertiser a buckle for a nation-wide chain of tabloids. When asked about contemplated negotiations, he said: "You don't have to negotiate. They are offered to you." Concerning the most important problem of a tabloid publisher, Mr. Moore weaseled his stand: "We do not make the news. If it happens to be sensational we will not eliminate it on that account. But I want to make a distinction between sensationalism and salaciousness. We will not tolerate the latter...
...which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist. All he might gain is greater familiarity with financial bigwigs, and that he could compass by far handier means; as a home-loving tabloid publisher, for example...
...Tabloid newspapers may be rescued from their present rather ignominious condition among the elite if the plans of A. P. Moore, former U. S. Ambassador to Spain, are realized. The Hearst tabloids in New York, and Boston have passed into the hands of the ex-Ambassador, and with them he intends to show the true possibilities of that most modern type of journalism. The use of pictures to give the news of the day has no essential disadvantage, and under a management that would eliminate the stress now laid by them on sordid and sensational items they...
Before entering the diplomatic service, Mr. Moore was engaged for many years in newspaper work with considerable success, and he is well qualified to make this attempt to redeem the tabloid. But the chief reason for the remarkable growth of the tabloid press to the point where some one of its members has the largest circulation in most of our large cities is the fact that they appeal to a class of readers that the orthodox papers did not touch. This was due to the fact that they did feature the type of news which this additional body of readers...