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  Tabloid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tabloid is a newspaper format particularly popular in the United Kingdom.
The phrase tabloid press is used to refer to newspapers focusing on less "serious" content, especially celebrities, sports, sensationalist crime stories and even hoaxes, though in recent years several "mainstream" newspapers have begun printing in the tabloid format (see below and supermarket tabloid).
In its traditional sense, tabloids tend to emphasise sensational stories and are reportedly prone to create their news if they feel that the subjects cannot, or will not, sue for libel.
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 Tabloid Television
Tabloid television's explosion was abetted by a number of significant changes in American broadcasting that occurred during the 1980s.
This is not to say that tabloid talk shows have a political agenda of anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-classism, or anti-homophobia, but rather that in opening themselves to the participation of a very broad range of voices, they necessarily encourage potentially progressive conflicts over cultural, racial and sexual politics.
But tabloid talk shows are marked by a level of indiscipline that often disrupts the enforcement of norms and allows people who are disadvantaged by those norms to talk back against them.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/tabloidtelev/tabloidtelev.htm   (2336 words)

  
 Poynter Online - The March of the Tabloids
It is not surprising that the birth of tabloids, around 1830, was accompanied by two characteristics that are, ironically, the same that motivate publishers and editors to convert to smaller formats today: 1.
However, it is with the early tabloids in large metropolitan areas that one first sees human interest stories on page one, presented with greater visual impact than ever before, with images playing as important a role as text.
It is this myth of the tabloid or, better yet, the irrational fear of some editors and publishers of the word "tabloid" itself that keeps many from contemplating the idea of testing their newspaper in a smaller format.
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 Topical Words: Tabloid
The first recorded use of tabloid for this style of journalism is from the very beginning of the twentieth century, from the Westminster Gazette of 1 January 1901.
In its defence, that firm pointed out that tabloid was by then widely used, mentioning recent issues of Punch, Tatler, Nature, and the Daily Mirror (another tabloid, founded that year), which had employed phrases such as “opera in tabloid”, “tabloid melodrama”, “knowledge in tabloid form”, “tabloid missives” and “modern art in tabloid”.
Burroughs Wellcome, it was argued, had thereby lost all rights to tabloid and that the action was “an attempt on the part of the plaintiff to prevent the proper development of the English language”;.
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 BBC NEWS | Business | Tabloid transformation
If the tabloid goes down well in the capital, it will be introduced in other regions at a later date.
The decision to target the commuter market is thought to have been influenced partly by the success of Associated Newspapers' Metro, a daily tabloid distributed free of charge at public transport hubs in several UK cities.
Tellingly, no other British broadsheet has dared to go tabloid in recent years despite the potential circulation gains, and the Independent's competitors are sure to be watching its experiment with interest.
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 Tabloid Journalism
The results of sensationalistic tabloid journalism can be seen in recent events in our modern time, such as the OJ Simpson trial.
Beginning in 1901, "tabloid" was used to identify a special type of newspaper--one that was condensed, usually half the size of a normal newspaper.
The tabloids attempt to captivate or persuade the masses with their colors and headlines about wonderful, amazing, and even shocking stories.
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 Salon Media | Tabloid nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To hear him tell it, tabloid TV simply morphed into network news magazines, syndicated talk shows, ceaseless cable "news" coverage and those morning programs where the men all wear sweaters and the coffee is decaffeinated.
But for Kearns, who is in New York promoting his book "Tabloid Baby," an amusing if somewhat self-serving account of his years in the business, most people just don't get it.
Disney is one of many who may not be pleased at how they are depicted in "Tabloid Baby." Her stated desire to class up "A Current Affair" clashed with some of the excesses that occurred on her watch -- most notably Steve Dunleavy's payment to a witness in the William Kennedy Smith trial.
www.salon.com /media/col/elde/1999/12/08/tabloid/print.html   (1783 words)

  
 Tabloid
This four-day unit exposes students to "how it used to be" in American politics and culture before the age of tabloid papers, investigative reporting, and television.
Tabloid journalism and similar recent trends in news and television reporting have had a tremendous (and, some would say, irreversible) impact on American culture.
Moreover, as traditionally tabloid outlets have become more mainstream, the line between the two is quickly becoming blurred.
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 Tabloid news articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A weekly tabloid that ran drawings Monday depicting the Prophet Muhammad to accompany a special report was ordered on Tuesday to withdraw from circulation all...
The reporter for the tabloid Expressen, who was in court for allegedly posing as a police officer while covering a high profile kidnapping case, has been freed...
It was partly the nerve of Braunstein in masquerading as a fireman that tweaked the tabloid nerves in a town where members of the NYFD are revered after so...
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 Thioguanine Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Thioguanine - RxList Monographs
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 Tabloid Journalism Bookstore
Tabloid critics lament this has undermined the tabloids' traditional competitiveness, and significantly altered their editorial policies and news coverage.
She relates much of the same tabloid history and categories as Hogshire (both are hobbled by having released their books before the 1999 mergers).
She claims that tabloid readers are savvier and better-educated than is assumed, and that working class readers (as much as upper class readers) realize that many tabloid stories are false or exaggerated.
www.hollywoodinvestigator.com /books.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Poynter Online - Tabloid Stampede in the UK
Now from across the pond in Great Britain comes news that the era of the tabloid may be closer at hand than most suppose.
By a wide margin, readers chose the tabloid, and total circulation in the test markets rose 40 percent.
The Daily Telegraph acknowledges having a tabloid prototype in hand and is expected next in.
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 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Independent takes the tabloid plunge
Nine out of 10 copies of the Independent sold are now in the tabloid format and for the past two weeks the broadsheet has only been available in the Carlton TV region, which encompasses greater London and parts of the home counties.
The Saturday paper went tabloid only in January, and components of the Independent on Sunday are now tabloid format, although the news section remains a broadsheet.
The tabloid Independent was launched in the greater London region encompassed by the M25 motorway on September 30, with the promise that its contents would be the same as those of the broadsheet version.
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1215690,00.html   (519 words)

  
 Salon 21st | Network to Tabloid: drop ads
Tabloid's offending story, which ran under the headline "Subway Whale," told of a 450-pound New Yorker who was denied a job with the New York Transit Authority.
After Tabloid published Webster's letter (complete with e-mail address) and the notice of termination from Flycast, Webster says she was assaulted by a rash of mean-spirited e-mails with comments like, "You are nothing but a quivering mound of gristle," and other, more obscene abuse.
In the termination letter it sent to Tabloid editors, Flycast said it had received complaints from three of its "largest advertisers," although it would not specify which advertisers.
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 Supermarket tabloid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supermarket tabloids are national weekly magazines in the United States, printed on newsprint in tabloid format, specializing in celebrity news, gossip, astrology, and bizarre (some would say apocryphal) stories about ordinary people.
Unlike regular tabloid-format newspapers, supermarket tabloids are distributed through the magazine distribution channel, similarly to other weekly magazines and mass-market paperback books.
They are often found for sale alongside the checkout lines of supermarkets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Supermarket_tabloid   (113 words)

  
 editorsweblog.org: e. Tabloid vs. broadsheet Archives
Kelner and co. have stolen readers from the Guardian after switching to a tabloid format and pushing their product as focusing on the "views," a strategy that Kelner boasts has been the core of their circulation success.
European dailies have had an easier time switching to tabloid formats because advertising accounts for 60-70% of a paper's revenue, whereas in the United States, newspapers depend on advertisers for 85% of their revenue.
The tabloid format paper will be distributed at 1,400 newspaper racks near Metro and bus stations and will be delivered to upper-middle class households targeting 25-54 year olds, expecting a total weekly circulation of 260,000.
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 Amazon.com: Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television (Console-Ing ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tabloid Culture is the first book to treat these diverse yet related media forms and events in tandem.
Glynn goes beyond the simplistic demonization of tabloid television to specify both the genre’s form and its cultural ramifications.”—Jim Collins, author of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Age of Information --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Tabloid news only came about because people liked to read tabloid papers, and with Cable TV taking over like it did, Media excutives decided to do more yellow journalism shows and put them on cable as fast as they could.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822325691?v=glance   (1517 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Ashley Olsen sues tabloid for libel, invasion of privacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Freedom of the press is a valuable right, but it is not a license for gossipy tabloids to tar and feather innocent celebrities and destroy their reputations and businesses for the rags' profits," the suit said.
The suit said that while a story in the tabloid's Feb. 21 issue does not actually refer to Olsen using or selling drugs, it implied that she was doing so with a misleading headline and cover photograph depicting Olsen with her eyes half-shut.
The photo made it appear she was "drugged" but that the actress "does not use or sell drugs," the suit said.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-02-16-olsen-libel-suit_x.htm   (361 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Times in tabloid transformation
The Times newspaper will be printed in tabloid form only from Monday after more than 200 years as a broadsheet, it has been announced.
The decision to scrap its broadsheet edition was made after a successful trial run of the tabloid version.
Since publishing a broadsheet and tabloid version, sales of the paper have gone up by 4.5%.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3966681.stm   (252 words)

  
 Actor Sean Astin contributes to 15th Annual Literacy Tabloid with the
The 2003 tabloid emphasizes making reading the newspaper a family affair, as well as developing key skills for reading and writing for kids of all ages.
Tools like the newspaper literacy activities in the Literacy Tabloid are a great help.” Astin, a Verizon Literacy Champion, supports the National Center for Family Literacy and its mission to reach parents and children through quality family literacy programs.
Articles include tips for reading aloud to toddlers, motivating school-aged children to read, how to write a letter to the editor, and a profile of what a day in the life of a newspaper reporter is really like.
www.famlit.org /AboutNCFL/PressRoom/CurrentPressReleases/LitTabPR03.cfm   (510 words)

  
 I Believe the National Enquirer - Why don't you? By Jack Shafer
Striving for the kind of journalistic accuracy that repels libel suits, the tabloid paid many of its sources and scrupulously reported and fact-checked its pieces about Cher, Liz and Dick, Jackie O., Liza, Henry Kissinger, Burt and Loni, and the original Charlie's Angels.
Instead, the tabloid is regarded slightly worse today than it was in 1985, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
Respondents were asked to rate news organizations on a 1-to-4 scale, with 1 representing "I believe all or most" of what the news organization says and 4 representing "I believe almost nothing." Only 4 percent of the polled group believed all or most of what the Enquirer says, and a whopping 61 percent believed nothing.
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 FARRAGO TABLOID
After examining the evidence, Farrago Tabloid would like to rectract the story it ran about cosmonauts finding mice on mars.
Patrick Perk (82) confidentially informed the Farrago Tabloid that he last saw her on that fateful Saturday morning when she claimed that she was going to the local Internet café to order their weekly groceries from Woolworths.
Farrago Tabloid has taken it upon themselves to search far and wide to determine the current whereabouts of Petunia Perk.
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