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I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
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by Bill Sloan
Sales Rank: 966514
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List Price: $28.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 251 pages
Published by: Prometheus Books March 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1573929026
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1573929028
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Reader Reviews
This extensively-researched history of American tabloids was released in 2001, the only post-1999 tabloid book so far. That's relevant, because since 1999 all major tabloids (Enquirer, Star, Globe, Examiner, Mira, Sun, Weekly World News) have been under single ownership. Some tabloid critics lament that this has undermined the tabloids' traditional competitiveness, and significantly altered their editorial policies and news coverage. Anything written about tabs a decade earlier would be woefully out-of-date. As Sloan comments, the 1990s have seen the "tabloidization" of mainstream media. The major media have usurped the tabs' turf, creating what Sloan calls an "identity crisis" among tabloid editors and reporters, who must now compete directly against major media in search of scandalous type celebrity news, whereas in the past the major media shunned such stories. Sloan analyzes how such 1990s news stories as OJ, the death of Princess Di, and "Bill and Monica" affected news coverage by the tabloids and their mainstream competition. There are some other good tabloid books, several written by "insiders" like Sloan, but this is the only tabloid history that's up-to-date, and relevant to today and the near future. Author Bill Sloan was an editor at the Globe and Enquirer, and a Pulitzer-nominated reporter for the Dallas Times-Herald.
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