Word: tabloidism
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...humid humor, Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, teed off on Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan, who writes for the tabloid New York Daily News. One of Ed's columns had caught Peg's bloodshot eye. It "consisted of an open letter to his secretary," wrote Pegler. "This was an unusual device. Usually his secretary writes to him and in this way is able to congratulate him on remarkable feats of exclusive journalism and prophecy and thank him for kindnesses to others which he might not have the indelicacy to mention, although modesty is not his worst...
...handy opera glasses. With the bumbling kindliness of her type, she is also a busybody good neighbor, always willing to help, and capable, even, of pawning her opera glasses to help a friend. Life for Mrs. Marsan is excitingly recorded by New York's scare-headlined, tabloid Daily News: "She liked the love scrapes and the marriage tangles and the murders. . . . Best of all, she liked the pictures and the ads and the comics, and she read the Daily Horoscope the first thing, even before turning back into the building...
...year since Founder Joseph Medill Patterson's death, the circulation of the irreverent and inimitable tabloid New York Daily News continued to shoot up. The U.S. newspaper with the most readers now has 2,375,000 daily customers and 4,800,000 on Sundays. Yet Joe Patterson's old title of president was unfilled. At first most of the trade bet that cousin Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune) McCormick and sister Eleanor Medill (Washington Times-Herald) Patterson would soon move in. But even Bertie and Cissie could see that the News was doing fine without them, in the hands...
Considering retirement in 1937, Ruth divorced her husband, a onetime Chicago gunman named "Moe" Snyder, known more popularly to tabloid readers as "The Gimp." The next year, The Gimp crashed her Hollywood home and shot up Ruth's pianist, Myrl Alderman. The Gimp went to jail for a year. Ruth eloped with Alderman and retired to a Colorado ranch...
...almost unreadable, but, more important, they also get great grey blobs of news unslanted and in plentiful supply. The Telegraph is an outstanding example of responsible journalism in an era of crisis and confusion. Its rise was not as spectacular as the postwar growth of one rival, the gaudy tabloid Daily Mirror, which climbed from 2,400,000 to 3,565,000 in eight months. But it was one that Fleet Streeters applauded more warmly...