tabloid(n.)
1884年, Tabloid,“小药片”,商标名称(由伯罗斯,威尔科姆和公司)用于压缩或浓缩化学品和药物,是由 tablet 和希腊后缀 -oid 组成的混合词。到1898年,它被用于比喻任何东西的压缩形式或剂量,因此有 tabloid journalism(1901年)和代表它的报纸(1917年),因为它们有短小的、简洁的新闻文章和/或因为它们的尺寸小。最初与伦敦《每日邮报》的编辑和所有者阿尔弗雷德·C·哈姆斯沃斯(Alfred C. Harmsworth)有关。
Mr. Harmsworth entered a printing office twenty years ago as office-boy, and today owns thirty periodicals besides The Mail. Upon a friendly challenge from Mr. Pulitzer of The New York World, the English journalist issued the first number of The World for the new century in the ideal form. The size of the page was reduced to four columns and the general make-up was similar in appearance to that of one of the weekly magazines. Current news was presented in condensed and tabulated form, of which the editor says: "The world enters today upon the twentieth or time-saving century. I claim that by my system of condensed or tabloid journalism hundreds of working hours can be saved each year." ["The Twentieth Century Newspaper," in The Social Gospel, February 1901]
哈姆斯沃斯先生二十年前作为办公室男孩进入印刷厂,今天拥有三十个期刊,除了《邮报》。在来自《纽约世界报》的友好挑战下,这位英国记者以理想的形式发行了新世纪的第一期《世界报》。页面大小缩小到四列,总体布局与一周刊杂志的外观类似。当前新闻以简洁和表格形式呈现,编辑说:“今天世界进入了节省时间的二十世纪。我认为通过我的简化或小报新闻,每年可以节省数百个工作小时。”[“二十世纪报纸”,《社会福音》,1901年2月]
该词起源时间:1884年