Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, stuck away in the country hollows, in old villages around which suburbs have grown, in city slums that look like grey blurs from expressways and fast commuter trains, the poor are scarcely visible. Society sees them mostly through the tabloid stories that reflect their roaring crime rate. For, as Henry Fielding put it 200 years ago, "the sufferings of the poor are less known than their misdeeds...
...Chicago Sun-Times, which Field had taken over from his father in 1950, was not only making a profit after long years in the red, it was also closing in on the front-running Chicago Tribune. A serious and responsible tabloid, the Sun-Times was even outselling the Trib within the city limits of Chicago. Field's second paper, the Chicago Daily News, which he bought for $24 million from the Knight Newspapers in 1959, was not making as much money as the Sun-Times, but it was gaining in reputation. "I think newspapers should speak to the orchestra...
...told "exclusive," Patria announced that "Hitler and his Nazi assassins were disciples of the Yankees. The Yankees have shown themselves to be better teachers of crime than Trujillo." La Nación, the official four-page tabloid voice of the rebel government, can be almost as shrill. It attacks junta troops as "genocidas" and "torturers...
Akers joined Marshall Field's Chicago Sun in 1941, and when the Sun merged with the Times in 1948, he was named managing editor. "He had a passion for perfection," says a newsman. "He just wanted a great paper in a hurry." The tabloid Sun-Times (circ. 534,000) did not become a great paper under Akers, but it did become a dedicated one; Akers encouraged depth reporting in such areas as education and religion, before most other dailies got around to it. Among his expose triumphs, he uncovered a "flower fund" in the books of a Cook County...
Advertising Boycott. Meanwhile, there have been feeble attempts to supply Baltimore with an interim newspaper. The Guild puts out a small daily tabloid, the Baltimore Banner, for which Sun staffers scrape up news from radio and television. But local merchants, friendly to the Sun, provide little advertising and the Banner is losing more than $4,000 a week. A second daily, the New Baltimore Morning Herald, published by Johns Hopkins students' with coed assistance on weekends, has also been hard put to find advertising in a town where the Sun has long been king. But the city...