Showing papers in "Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly in 1928"

The Connotation of Newspaper Headlines

Abstract: now upwards of 200 books available to explain it to you. To conclude, may I say that, whatever criticism I have made of previous efforts in high school journalism has behind it only a spirit of helpfulness. The progress of the work has been amazing. The quality attained in high school newspapers in so short a time excels the aeeompJishment of the colleges. The whole field contains unusual opportunities in several different directions. The first steps have been no more wavering than might be expected. It is time, now, I think, to take stock of what has been done. The next step is standardization that will bring the educational respect that the work deserves.

The New York Tabloids

Abstract: T AT the tabloid newspaper should come in for consideration on a program which has been heralded as being devoted in part to the analysis of present day journalism seems inevitable. The tabloid, now less than nine years old in the United States, is indeed a present day development and so large a growth as to command attention. The three New York tabloids have a combined circulation amounting to much more than one-third the total circulation of all New York papers. The two morning tabloids have more than half the morning circulation. The number of New York Daily News readers exceeds the combined circulation of the two largest afternoon papers and with a million and a quarter buyers this tabloid boasts America's largest newspaper circulation. Beyond doubt, the tabloids are a great development and a recent one. The only question remaining is: Is the tabloid journalism 1 \"As a matter of fact it is not journalism,\" Oswald Garrison Villard has declared. \"It is the degradation of journalism.\"· Aben Kandel writing in the Forum has insisted likewise that the tabloid is not journalism but a perversion of journalism, declaring\" The tabloids make eavesdroppers of re-