Word: tabloidizing
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...CHOOSE A SEXY TOPIC AND SELL IT SEXILY. Video newsmagazines are proliferating because they are cheaper, and thus more profitable, than comedy or drama. But to beat the tabloid "news" and talk shows, network magazines increasingly concentrate on crime, celebrities and scandals -- and on graphic visual imagery. Gartner says NBC would have had a perfectly sound, valid and sensible 14-min. story about the controversy without a crash. But the producers felt the story would be stronger with...
...tabloid is a newspaper designed for wrapping fish. Before folding in the flounder, some folks read it for prurient gossip about the filthy famous and filthier rich, political scandals, meat-ax murders, baby killers, horse-race results, used-car ads and, now and then, a scoop. It speaks with a cigarette behind its ear and a toothpick in the corner of its mouth. Its headlines are punchy and raunchy: HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR and BEST SEX I EVER HAD. Men read these papers mainly for sporting news. Women prefer tabloids, jokes Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York...
...that as it may, there was nothing arm's length about the raucous tabloid wars that erupted in New York City last week. On the one arm was the hard- driving Zuckerman, a millionaire real estate developer who also publishes the weekly newsmagazine U.S. News & World Report and the monthly Atlantic. On the other was another big-bucks businessman, Steven Hoffenberg, who has announced his intention to buy the News's competition, the failing New York Post. With the Post thus gasping for breath, Zuckerman leaped for its jugular and in a few days hired away its three top editors...
...actually began in January, shortly after Zuckerman bought the News for $36.3 million. Once the top tabloid in the U.S., with a circulation of 3 million (now 777,000), the paper had been crippled by a strike and a hemorrhaging of advertising revenues wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure...
...wants to play in the big time and tell America what it should be. Of the two papers, it is the Post, in the hands of an untried newcomer and shorn of several talented top journalists, that may not survive. That would leave New Yorkers with only one hometown tabloid to thrill them with headlines like GOTHAM BESIEGED BY KILLER COCKROACHES...