Word: tabloidism
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FIVE STAR FINAL-Arthur Byron running a tabloid newspaper...
...tabloid press had, indeed, turned up Vivian Gordon's past much as a bear snouting for ants turns over a stone. Even the conservative papers devoted column upon column to the murder mystery and its ramifications. But the sensational papers tackled Vivian's story with a mad gusto, especially Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News...
...fair question: 'Doesn't the large size papers' playing down of the Gordon story and playing up of the Muscle Shoals give a hint at the reason why six large size papers have folded up in New York City since 1919, while three tabloid papers have come to life in the same period...
...Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken, the mother and her husband commit suicide. An important...
...What is one life in the affairs of a state?" The point of the two versions seemed much the same and, in any case, General Butler's lawyer could not recall that he had ever mentioned the Vanderbilt name in connection with the story. But the onetime tabloid publisher spoke of suing General Butler, hinted darkly of the revelations he might make...