) A tabloid is a newspaper designed for wrapping fish. Before folding in the flounder, some folks read it for prurient gossip about the filthy famous and filthier rich, political scandals, meat-ax murders, baby killers, horse-race results, used-car ads and, now and then, a scoop. It speaks with a cigarette behind its ear and a toothpick in the corner of its mouth. Its headlines are punchy and raunchy: HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR and BEST SEX I EVER HAD. Men read these papers mainly for sporting news. Women prefer tabloids, jokes Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News,...
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