Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first part of the tour was dedicated to getting the strikers' viewpoint. A tabloid newspaper's representative was appointed official photographer. He snapped his shutter delightedly as the four dignitaries played Santa-Claus-taking-orders among the dishevelled strike barracks-shaking horny hands, patting grimy little heads, listening to angry women who had lost husbands or health or unborn babies, or who complained that they had been insulted, assaulted, injured by Governor Fisher's Coal & Iron Police or the operator's "scabs," many of whom are Negroes...
...general manager, William Franklin Knox, with complete charge of editorial and business policies, responsible to no order except the occasional bulls of Mr. Hearst. Not since the ascendency of Solomon Solis Carvalho in 1917 had a Hearstling been given such wide powers. Col. Knox is a believer in tabloid journalism. Also he is expected to tour the U. S. with an eye to making the Hearst dailies more intensely local, less standardized...
...limitations of the stuff of humor are not merely those of subject matter. One may learn to countenance the abnormal interest shown by columnists, particularly of tabloid newspapers, in the crime of passion. Such writers are rarely credited with sober or mature thought on the evidence at hand. The penalty of an otherwise happy profession is that all ears are turned to the wisecrackery of the fool and none to the expressions of his opinion. There is thus a peculiarly personal application of the law of conservation of energy in the life of the humorist...
Following Representative Casey's speech, Representative La Guardia obtained lurid effects in an oration on "Hootch and Harlots," illustrated in the tabloid sheetlet manner with a gigantic photo of a hard-boiled Coal & Iron Policeman which was passed from hand to hand over the House desks...
Last week Mother Burnham awoke one morning horrified. Plastered hugely across the first page of the Daily Mirror, Hearst tabloid, was Vera's picture, heavily headlined, triumphantly copyrighted. Mother Burnham eyed it narrowly; saw it was no fake...