Word: tabloidism
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...public for advice on how to run a newspaper. But last week, in an eye-stopping half-page ad, the Times confessed to doing just that. It was taking the public's "advice"-as expressed in numerous complaints-on how to improve its eight-week-old offspring, the tabloid Mirror...
Such changes were unlikely to be enough: the Mirror was still printing too little news, and too many women's features. Its pictures were still mediocre. The Chandlers had still not found the special technique and the excited state of mind that tabloid journalism requires...
...home after midnight four nights last week after partying with the Marquess ("Sonny") of Blandford and other titled young bloods. After she listened to a palmist foretelling romance for Sonny, the Princess refused to have her fortune told, protesting: "Oh no, no. You're much too accurate." The tabloid Sunday Pictorial decided to be sternly parental about the whole thing: "Mothers who find it hard to regulate the hours of their daughters do not like to be told that 'Princess Margaret's parents don't seem to mind...
...readers of the tabloid Daily News next morning-or the smart minority that could read headlines-the head meant that the cops had caught an armed burglar wearing two pairs of pants and a skirt as well. Last week it was pinned on a bulletin board, and Copyreader Harry Mott got an extra $20 in his pay envelope for writing the headline of the week...
...guitars and sang: "In this year of nineteen hundred and forty-eight a comet appeared in the sky. Have a care, señores, have a care!" Each dawn last week the comet could be seen in the eastern sky, shooting out its long mane of white fire. The tabloid Prensa Gráfica blamed it for the five slight earthquake shocks that rattled the city during the week...