About this title: Sloan, once an editor at National Enquirer, shares his firsthand insight on the history of tabloids. He discusses the trends and evolution of the business, pointing out the innovations of publisher Generoso Paul Pope Jr. in the early 1960s.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Description: Good. 1573929026 Ex library book with stickers and stampings. Overall good condition with clean text and good binding unless otherwise noted. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. clean cover and clean tight pages, barely used ex-lib book. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 255 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781573929028ISBN:1573929026
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. As New. Clean and crisp. No marks of any kind. Not remaindered. 255 p.; 1.00" x 9.32" x 6.28". Includes Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781573929028ISBN:1573929026
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾ Book and jacket in very good condition. Clean tight and square No markings. May have never been read. No price on jacket so may be book club. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781573929028ISBN:1573929026
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. F/F in mylar protected DJ. First Edition. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: PROMETHEUS BKS
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781573929028ISBN:1573929026
Description: New. This entertaining history of America's supermarket tabloids offers a behind-the-scenes look at the intriguing world of tabloid journalism, and especially the unique personalities that made it a successful and influential force in today's media. Illus... read more
"A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact says one review and so it is. The book is a history of tabloids from the first one in 1919 to the present. The slant is very much on the business of owning a running tabloids and how the editorial is very much subservient to the market-positioning of the times. The influence and corruption of supermarkets in the publishing sphere (to which one can extrapolate for every single product stocked by the giants) has a major and very negative impact on all our lives. This was an angle I had never before considered, very mind-opening. The grosser tabloids are aimed at two markets, the incredulous who really believe that there might be aliens living in California disguised as people or that a 19lb baby is devouring steak two days after birth and the student market who love the parodies. (Now I come to think of it, is it any more credible to believe that dead lumps of rock and gaseous bodies up in the ether really do influence our personalities and daily lives? Are not the purveyors of astrological predictions not just people of the same ilk as the sensationalist journalists? )
How these fantastic stories were thought up is very funny. On a Wed. night when the Enquirer and its sister tabloids had gone to press, the journalists would sit in a booth in a bar thinking up weird and wonderful tales for publication in the WWN or other Believe It Or Not type rag.
Now, all six of the popular supermarket tabloids are owned by a single company. All their sales are on the slide. They have nothing sensationalist left to write about now that the Monica and Bill debacle opened up the mainstream papers to writing about anything, oral sex included. Jerry Springer provides daily sleaze, gossip is part of the News now. What place can the tabloids occupy? They don't seem to know it themselves."
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