Word: tabloidism
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...Journal, as alert and sharp-eyed as a rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break...
...fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors do not tamper with her sometimes confusing finishing-school prose, and the copy desk likes to have...
...found in a snow-filled Bowery doorway. Educated at Hamilton and Columbia, he got his Ph.D. at Oxford, became an assistant professor at Hunter College. In 1929, after winning critics' acclaim with a two-volume biography of Shelley, Professor Peck saw his academic career blow up in a tabloid scandal. Suing for separation, his wife accused him of leading an "unbelievably immoral life," named a Hunter student among five corespondents. Ousted from the faculty, the once elegant "Love Prof" drifted down to the Bowery, thereafter regaled fellow down & outers with barroom recitals of Kipling's Mandalay. He recently...
...again, this time into a full-size, eight-column paper like its morning sister, the Times. Pinkley said the change was the result of a poll which showed that its readers, 6-to-1, preferred an eight-column paper. "Besides," added Pinkley, "Los Angeles just isn't a tabloid town. Tabloids thrive where two things exist: dense population and good public transportation; Los Angeles has neither...
...Angeles newsmen pointed to another reason: advertisers preferred to load the Times with full-size ads instead of placing them in the tabloid-size Mirror. The change would give the Mirror a chance at some of this revenue. "When we make the changeover," says Owner Chandler, "we anticipate our losses will be cut from between $6,000 to $8,000 a week." Publisher Pinkley hopes that the new full-size Mirror will hit the 300,-ooo reader mark. Says he: "I doubt that any metropolitan newspaper can make money with less than a 300,000 to 325,-ooo circulation...