Word: tabloidism
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...occasion, Conservatives predicted a socialist saturnalia. Under a headline, "Shinwell celebrates-with 1,000 guests," London's Tory tabloid Daily Graphic told of plans for washing down coal nationalization with highballs served on silver salvers in a paneled, specially heated room. Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin-well issued an immediate denial, announced plans for a simple ceremony in the un-paneled, unheated Ministry headquarters, which cannot hold more than 50 people. A single toast would be proposed while Shinwell presented a leather-bound copy of the Coal Industry Nationalization Act to plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will...
...Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave 2,400,000 tabloid readers their full 2? worth. (Same day, the U.N. site story rated a paragraph in the News...
Educated Ear. Tabloid journalism would never get off the ground without such quotes, and such ears for them as smooth, chain-smoking David Buckley Charnay's. Newsman Charnay, 34, is a quiet fellow whom people like to confide in. He went to Public School 184, Walter Winchell's alma mater, and matriculated, like Winchell, on Broadway...
Early in his tabloid career (at Hearst's Mirror), Charnay once bawled out wizened Editor Emile Gauvreau for printing off-the-record information that Charnay had promised not to use. The boss rang for a guard and Charnay, still protesting, was hauled away. But in losing his job, he won a reputation on the main stem as a man who could keep a secret. Charnay once posed as a murderer's attorney to get an interview in a cell at the Tombs, hid in a French actress' stateroom closet to get an exclusive story on her "life...
When Reporter Sam Boal got to London, he realized that "the people of America don't know a damn thing about the people of England." So the correspondent of Manhattan's tabloid, laborite Post decided to report the British through British eyes. The eyes he chose were those of his widowed, Cockney charlady, old (65), worked-bowed Mrs. Hunkle. This week, readers of Boal's twice-a-week column were seeing the U.S. through those same Cockney eyes. Boal had brought Mrs. Hunkle back with him, took her along on a Hollywood vacation where everything from elaborate...