Word: tabloidism
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Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who frequently bursts into tears or faints, is nevertheless powerful enough to keep the Middle East in turmoil. But as he arrived in the U.S. last week, to continue the battle against Britain before the U.N., Manhattan's jeering, tabloid Daily News greeted him in characteristic style: WEEPER MOSSY HERE TODAY FOR U.N. SHOW...
Four Los Angeles dailies last week jacked their prices up from 7? to a dime. The city's fifth paper, the tabloid Mirror, jumped from 5? to 7?. Explained Hearst's Examiner: "It costs just three times as much to print and distribute the Examiner today as it did in 1940." Newsprint costs alone had rocketed from...
Like all U.S. dailies, the News is plagued by mounting newsprint prices and production costs. And its newest, breeziest competitor, the three-year-old afternoon tabloid Mirror, is taking more & more of its readers...
...Herald-Express, is reportedly in the red. Of all Los Angeles papers only Norman Chandler's fat, old morning Times is coining money. But it too has its troubles. It is pumping its profits into the Mirror, which it owns. Despite the Mirror's fast growth, the tabloid is still losing money. It looked as if there might be one too many papers in Los Angeles...
...days, beginning last February, Buenos Aires' yanqui-baiting tabloid El Laborista has front-paged 134 unflattering, sneeringly captioned pictures of Harry Truman. Sample picture and caption (in translation...