Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
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And there's some academic works that...
which analyzed tabloid journalism in, frankly, a very dry and functional way.
There is one that was published only about three or four years ago, but it only looked at daily newspapers, and it didn't look at Sunday tabloid journalism, which, of course, is a crucial part.
in the evolution of tabloid journalism, what I might like to call the tabloid mentality.
So I realized there was a gap in the market for this, and no one had really attempted it before.
And once I got stuck into it, I perhaps realized a little why.
Because you're telling a story of culture and history and how that evolves over several centuries.
Because...
tabloid newspapers all newspapers are intrinsically involved in recording and reporting on the events of the era and the time so you have to you know to report
To write about that, you also have to understand certain things about the political climate of certain eras, things that went on that are long forgotten now.
For instance, when I was writing about the American tabloids in the yellow journalism era, I had to learn about the American-Spanish war over Cuba, which I'd never heard about before.
And so, yeah, it was, you know, it took me quite a while.
And I was helped in a way by the pandemic, which gave me some freedom to work from home over a couple of years.
And that gave me some of the time to do it.
And I was fortunate to have some research leave from my university.
Well, this is not terribly easy.
These are very generalized questions.
labels, as it were.
And the distinctions were much more apparent when what you might call tabloid or popular journalism really began back in the sort of, as we understand it today,
although its origins go back a long way before that, but in the, in what you might call the sort of late Victorian era.
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