Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not?was the opinion of Senator Capper of Kansas, publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital and Capper's Weekly (farmers'tabloid), who last week visited President Coolidge at Rapid City. Senator Capper believes that the equalization fee is essential to farm relief, hopes that a compromise bill can be agreed upon 'by the Administration and the McNary-Haugenites...
...until last fortnight did Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) publish an interview telling how the daughter of a press potentate enjoys and conducts herself as a member of her father's staff. Then it became apparent that assembling tabloid news is as much fun for the daughter as furnishing it to the masses is for the parent. Miss Patterson said: ". . . the most fun in the world. Far better than going to school, and you learn so much more...
...Reporter Kenneth Campbell's pocket Pastor Straton noted a copy of Bernarr Macfadden's tabloid Graphic, and asked to see it. The reporter described: "The family gathered around the bed to inspect it. At the first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...welcomes wherever he goes-and U. S. railroad executives have offered him free transportation to any point. He will see his picture on U. S. Army recruiting billboards; his name in advertisements* for wrist watches, fountain pens, automobiles, what not. He will discover that the New York Daily News (tabloid) has distributed sepia photographs of him, "ready for framing," to its gum-chewing readers. He will see shopgirls wearing his features on their handbags, his monoplane models on their hats...
...Unwieldy size and staggering columns of type have driven hordes of people to the comforting refuge of the tabloids." This battle cry of tabloids was recently advanced by one of Bernarr Macfadden's subordinates on the New York Evening Graphic. Whether tabloids are a "comforting refuge" is questionable, but the fact remains that the full-sized newspapers have taken on an alarming bulk since the World War. They are not ashamed of their bulk-it represents increasing advertising revenue and new features; it grows bigger every day; it does not seem to fear the tabloid cry. Daily editions...