Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tabloid Sun-Times does not at tempt to carry as much news as the Trib, but what it does run is sharply written and attractively and conveniently presented. Directed at readers younger than the Trib's, the Sun-Times pro jects more of a personality, and Editor Emmett Dedmon's reporters are better known around town. The paper's onceover-lightly treatment of the news appeals to commuters riding buses into the city as well as to Chicago's growing Negro population. "The Sun-Times," says a onetime Chicago editor, "comes closest to being a successful...
...somewhat unkempt Elizabethan garden and 300-acre New Canaan, Conn., estate and manor house known as Waverny. Then, so that the lord should be untroubled at his nuptials, only eight guests were invited, including one local photographer, and the details were leaked only to the nation's leading tabloid society reporter...
...adults," she says, "have allowed all the protective barriers to go down. We have done away with chaperons, supervision, rules, close family relations, and privacy from the intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial exploitation of sex, tabloid reporting of sordid sexual occurrences, wholly unsupervised after-school occupations. To fill the void left by the old safeguards, youngsters must be given a bulwark of factual knowledge and orientation...
...days as presidential press aide, he thought it unfair to blame the Administration for digging a credibility gap, and now that he is publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday, Bill Moyers, 32, thinks the same thing. The nation's newspapers, he told the Illinois Bankers Association, share equal blame for any gap because of all the conflicting interpretations and plain bad reporting. Said Bill: "I learned at the White House that what's happening often depends upon who is looking, and that of all the great myths of American journalism, objectivity is the greatest...
...other peaks. Feeling confident, she strolled to a nearby ski shop to buy a parka and ski pants, more appropriate to the surroundings than the olive two-piece suit that she wore. It was her undoing. The store owner recognized her and phoned the news to the sensationalist Zurich tabloid Blick, which offers money for all such tips...