The REALL News - January 1995

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p align="center"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></p> <h1 align="center"><img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54">The REALL News<img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54"></h1> <p align="center"><i>"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi</i></p> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><b>Volume 3 Issue 1</b></td> <td align="right" width="50%"><b>January 1995</b></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h2 align="center">In This Issue</h2> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="look-into-the-sun-part-3.html">A Look into the Sun - and Other Tabloids, Part 3</a>, by Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="persistence-of-alleged-vision.html">Supermarket Tabloids: The Persistence of (Alleged) Vision</a>, by Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="letter.html">Letter to REALL</a></li> <li><a href="subject-and-author-indexes.html">1993-1994 Subject and Author Indexes</a></li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><h2>A Look into the Sun -- and Other Tabloids</h2> <h3 align="center" style="text-align: center">Part 3 -- The Lure of Money</h3> <p align="center"><b>by Bob Ladendorf</b></p> <p>In the <a href="../../v02/n11/index.html" target="_top">first part of this series</a> on tabloids, I pointed out that not all of the major supermarket tabloids are alike, that only the <i>Sun</i> and the <i>Weekly World News</i> (<i>WWN</i>) [not the <i>National Enquirer</i>, <i>Star</i> or <i>Globe</i>] provide extensive coverage of supposed paranormal and pseudoscientific occurrences. In <a href="../../v02/n12/index.html" target="_top">the second part</a>, I demonstrated that the articles in the <i>Sun</i> and the <i>WWN</i> have weak or vague sources and the events allegedly occur in obscure, and often foreign, locations. In Part 3, I examine the tabloids raison d'etre, as well as briefly reviewing their long history in American life.</p> <p>"Never shoot above the heads of the people" was Frank Leslie's motto, and to Leslie, the news meant sensation, as John Tebbel relates in his book, <i>The Media in America</i>.. "With a true instinct for the mass market," Tebbel says, "he looked for the war in Nicaraqua, the bloody conflict in Kansas, the sensational New York murder." Frank Leslie's <i>Illustrated Newspaper</i> was a big hit, which started a spin-off of a whole series of magazines. "In spite of its name," Tebbel comments, "this 'newspaper' was actually a weekly magazine of a kind now plentiful all over the world ...." Frank Leslie started his magazine in ... 1856.<a href="look-into-the-sun-part-3.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p>   </body>