Terry Kirby
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Terry Kirby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there was a vicious sort of circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst, who owned... William Randolph Hearst, who was the model for Citizen Kane, who owned the Rye Bond newspaper in New York.
And they really lowered standards between them because there was this vicious circulation war.
And they... But in 18...
At the end of 1900, most people viewed 1901 as the start of the new century.
So in December 1900, on the
on the 31st of December, Harmsworth, who's this sort of genius from London, is invited by Pulitzer to edit the edition of the New York World for January 1st, 1901.
And Harmsworth is given sort of free reign to do what he wants.
do what he wants.
He orders that all stories should be shortened to, I think it was 500 words, that the newspaper content must be much more dynamic, much more shorter and snappier.
And he has this mission on the front page where he says, this is time-saving journalism.
And this is where the word tabloid is used.
for the first time.
And he calls it my tabloid version of journalism.
And the word tabloid itself had been used at the time, not in any connection with newspapers, but it had been used as a means of describing anything small and concentrated.
And it came from, the word was a portmanteau word,
coming from a combination of tablets and alkaloids.
So it kind of originated in kind of, you know, proprietary pills that you might buy.
So that's where the word tabloid comes from.
And it's kind of stuck around, really.
Oh, I was just going to say the Daily Mail, still owned by the fourth generation of the Harmsworth family.
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