The Tabloid That Launched America's Obsession With True Crime

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'The birth of the tabloids was an inexorable, unprecedented cultural force,' writes Joe Pompeo. Here's the story about the tabloid that began America's true crime obsession

’s size was compact, larger than a magazine, but much easier to handle than a clumsy broadsheet. It was an easily digestible news product with an eye for sensational topics like scandal and crime, and it appealed to the middle and working classes, who could handily consume its contents on a subway car or, should they be so inclined, inside a crowded pub.

Patterson visited Northcliffe to pick his brain about the newspaper business. “New York’s got to have a picture tabloid,” Northcliffe implored during one of Patterson’s trips to England. “I don’t care who starts it. If the rest of you don’t see the light soon, I’ll start one myself!” In the U.K., thesold nearly a million copies per issue, packed with advertising every single day.

It didn’t take much convincing. As McCormick later recalled, “I said we would get started on it right away.”came alive. The cousins had secured a loan and set up thein lower Manhattan, where a few dozen journalists and business employees crammed themselves into a small office rented from the. Patterson bombarded the brass with letters and telegrams from Chicago. They were elbowing in on the most crowded and competitive field in the country.

before they truncated the name—looked as if it beamed down from outer space. The front pages of the broadsheets were filled with dense stories about the peace treaty process and congressional bills. Theled with a juicy morsel of society gossip: the Prince of Wales, shown atop his steed in a towering front-page photograph, was expected to visit the Goelets and Vanderbilts at their Rhode Island summer mansions.

 

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