Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press may be overdrawn, there is another more optimistic view of the situation. The general level of a universal standard for the national press would be kept higher by pressure of public opinion than the plane where much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized paint the more glaring sins of modern journalism, there is small...
Engaged. Miss Margaret Dorothy Kahn, 26, of Manhattan, daughter of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn; to John Barry Ryan Jr., 27, reporter for a New York tabloid newspaper, grandson of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan...
...their tumultuous spectacles (Midsummer Night's Dream, Jedermann, Danton's Tod), Producer Max Reinhardt and company turned last week to the quieter drama of speculation. Peripherie, which has been translated as "The Ragged Edge," treats murder in somewhat the same vein of comic realism as does the U. S. tabloid press. What digs the vein deeper than it is ever dug by dramatic U. S. journalism or journalistic U. S. drama, is a thrust of reason which Europeans do not fear to exert in their most fantastic moods. Franzi, the roustabout hero of Peripherie, murders a wealthy patron...
...points of ethics in journalism is obviously open to doubt. Where, however, the issue is a more flagrant violation of a professional code than the worst advertisements of a medico, there seems no reason why any newspaper should be constrained to silence. The issue at point, while involving a tabloid paper in its local manifestation, is not to be classed with the usual frivolities of those publications; in brief, it concerns the statement, with no indication of doubt or other qualification, that a woman under sentence of death for murder has been visited by two ghosts-the first, and apparently...
...contributions must be of the following types of literature: the brief familiar essay, from 500 to 1000 words, the informal personal sketch, from 300 to 600 words, the tabloid book review, from 50 to 100 words, the humorous or satirical sketch, from 100 to 300 words, the sonnet, 14 lines, the rondeau, 13 lines, the triolet, 8 lines, humorous verse, not more than 20 lines and not free verse...