Word: tabloidism
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt had known just what he wanted to do after he left the White House, his longtime Press Secretary Steve Early told reporters last week. The President, who was perhaps the subject of more newspaper editorials than any other man in history, wanted to publish a tabloid sized newspaper without any editorial page. "He believed that if the people were given the facts," said Early, "they could draw their own conclusions...
Married. Lieut. Colonel Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 44, crusading founder and editor-on-leave of Manhattan's irrepressible tabloid PM, wartime best-selling author (The Battle Is the Payoff), kin of oldtime New York's "400" arbiter, Ward McAllister; and Elaine Brown Keiffer Cobb, 29, LIFE editorial staffer; both for the second time; at Lake Tahoe, Nev., the same day she received her Reno divorce from Army Lieut. Mortimer Howell Cobb. The bridegroom wanted to have every step of the divorce and marriage filmed by his personal photographer, but a bailiff kicked the cameraman out of court...
...York's minority-conscious Post, belatedly learning of Hopkins' views, skimped space from the war to bannerline on Page 1: "DARTMOUTH BARS JEWS 'TO END ANTI-SEMITISM,' SAYS PREXY." Next day PM, the Post's rival tabloid, took it up, running Hopkins' picture side by side with Nazi Jew-baiter Alfred Rosenberg. PM accused President Hopkins of "spouting the Hitler-Rosenberg line," or at best-talking "well-meaning but witless" nonsense...
What they missed was the kind of scenes that are butter to the tabloid's bread. Samples...
Duty Before Pleasure. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News, sharing its cameraman's pique, brushed off the wedding in a single sniffy paragraph. The good grey New York Times gave more space to the squabbling than to the wedding. Only the Herald Tribune, among all nine Manhattan papers, put duty before pleasure, and ran a fetching picture of the wedding- taken before the photographers walked...