<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d254781f-e031-4b60-85b4-682e77c57548/24E99FDD-59CB-42FA-AC00-873BBD0645ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/05/word-of-the-week-tabloid.html" href="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/05/word-of-the-week-tabloid.html" style="font-size: 11px;">nancyfriedman.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/05/word-of-the-week-tabloid.html"><P><STRONG><A href="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4f9453ef01156f99ab6c970c-popup"><IMG src="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c4f9453ef01156f99ab6c970c-320wi" class="at-xid-6a00d8341c4f9453ef01156f99ab6c970c" alt="Tabloid-6" /></A> Tabloid</STRONG>: A reduced-format newspaper, generally half the size of a traditional broadsheet paper, that opens vertically like a magazine for easier reading on buses and subway trains. Introduced in the late 19th century in England and the United States, tabloid newspapers quickly became known for their sensational content. <EM>Tabloid</EM> is often shortened to <EM>tab</EM>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/05/word-of-the-week-tabloid.html">So far, so familiar, at least for this lapsed journalist. What I hadn't known was that <EM>tabloid</EM> derives from an old trademark for a pharmaceutical brand. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/05/word-of-the-week-tabloid.html">At first readers didn't know what to call this compact type of newspaper. By analogy it resembled a kind of compressed medical pill introduced in 1884 by Burroughs, Wellcome. T</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/05/word-of-the-week-tabloid.html">It didn't take long for this term to be applied to any compressed item, including the vertical-fold newspaper format pioneered by London's <EM>Daily Mail</EM> and New York's <EM>Daily News</EM>. Because tabloid newspapers tended to emphasize sensational news coverage, their name itself came to signify that style of reporting.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24E99FDD-59CB-42FA-AC00-873BBD0645ED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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