Terry Kirby
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660 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
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 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.
His descendants still run it.
One of the few newspapers, you know, is still run by the family.
They still sort enormous control.
They're about to, they put in a bid to buy the British Daily Telegraph newspapers, which would see an amazing concentration of newspapers in their hands.
And the one thing about the Daily Mail, you may or may not like its politics.
It depends on the perspective.
you come from.
But, but I, I, it's one newspaper that has such a firm identity.
And, um, and I always say it knows its audience probably better than Taylor Swift knows our audience.
Well, I mean, that's a very good question.
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