Showing posts with label tabloid journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tabloid journalism. Show all posts
Monday, February 20, 2012
Friday, December 02, 2011
Nothing New...
Toronto Star opens a new front in war with Rob Ford
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Toronto Star is not happy about Rob Ford being mayor.
The Star did all it could to keep Ford from getting electing, throwing its full weight behind the campaign of Anyone Else in the Whole World. Mainly it put its hopes in George Smitherman, a loyal Liberal, going so far at one point as to suggest other candidates quit their campaigns and throw their support to Smitherman in a Block Ford manoeuvre.
The extent of the Star’s influence might be seen in the fact that voters ignored it in droves and elected Ford by a large margin. But that hasn’t stopped the bad blood. Ford, incensed at a Star story that suggested he’d had a “physical confrontation” with a player on a football team he coached, refuses to talk to the paper, and has barred it from receiving official notices and statements. He also threatened to sue, though he didn’t follow through. Read More »
Doug Ford to Star: Drop dead
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Toronto Star is not happy about Rob Ford being mayor.
The Star did all it could to keep Ford from getting electing, throwing its full weight behind the campaign of Anyone Else in the Whole World. Mainly it put its hopes in George Smitherman, a loyal Liberal, going so far at one point as to suggest other candidates quit their campaigns and throw their support to Smitherman in a Block Ford manoeuvre.
The extent of the Star’s influence might be seen in the fact that voters ignored it in droves and elected Ford by a large margin. But that hasn’t stopped the bad blood. Ford, incensed at a Star story that suggested he’d had a “physical confrontation” with a player on a football team he coached, refuses to talk to the paper, and has barred it from receiving official notices and statements. He also threatened to sue, though he didn’t follow through. Read More »
Doug Ford to Star: Drop dead
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Would The Impact Of Watergate Have Been Lessened...
...if it had occurred in 2011 and Woodward and Berstein had today's technology availabe to them?
Murdoch’s woes a pale imitation of the glory days of the tabloid press
By Paul Collins
It was 1 a.m. on a hot July night when detectives marched into the offices of the New York World. “Where’s the head?” they demanded.
In the summer of 1897, that question meant just one thing in Manhattan newsrooms, and it wasn’t a request to meet the managing editor. The head everyone sought was of William Guldensuppe, a masseur who had disappeared in late June from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment. He’d reappeared scattered in pieces along the Lower East Side, the Bronx and Brooklyn. What was still missing, though, was his head — which, rumor had it, a jealous lover had hidden inside a block of plaster.
To William Randolph Hearst, the crime was a perfect opportunity to trumpet his newly launched New York Evening Journal. Hearst offered a whopping $1,000 reward to solve the crime, and even formed a “Murder Squad” of reporters who were ready to resort to flashing badges and pistols to make citizen’s arrests. Yet his stunts were merely improvements on the carnivalesque populism of rival publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Featuring celebrity news and scandal, Pulitzer’s New York World had also created the world’s first colour comic section, and the popularity of strips like “The Yellow Kid” inspired competitors to scoff that the World and Journal were selling comic-strip journalism — “Yellow Journalism,” they called it. Read More »
Murdoch’s woes a pale imitation of the glory days of the tabloid press
By Paul Collins
It was 1 a.m. on a hot July night when detectives marched into the offices of the New York World. “Where’s the head?” they demanded.
In the summer of 1897, that question meant just one thing in Manhattan newsrooms, and it wasn’t a request to meet the managing editor. The head everyone sought was of William Guldensuppe, a masseur who had disappeared in late June from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment. He’d reappeared scattered in pieces along the Lower East Side, the Bronx and Brooklyn. What was still missing, though, was his head — which, rumor had it, a jealous lover had hidden inside a block of plaster.
To William Randolph Hearst, the crime was a perfect opportunity to trumpet his newly launched New York Evening Journal. Hearst offered a whopping $1,000 reward to solve the crime, and even formed a “Murder Squad” of reporters who were ready to resort to flashing badges and pistols to make citizen’s arrests. Yet his stunts were merely improvements on the carnivalesque populism of rival publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Featuring celebrity news and scandal, Pulitzer’s New York World had also created the world’s first colour comic section, and the popularity of strips like “The Yellow Kid” inspired competitors to scoff that the World and Journal were selling comic-strip journalism — “Yellow Journalism,” they called it. Read More »
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