The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813125030 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jack Vitek is an associate professor of journalism and English at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. He is coauthor of Idol Rock Hudson: The True Story of an American Film Hero. . For many years, he was a professional journalist working for numerous publications, including the Washington Daily News, the Wal
Edward S. Brown said No Charisma in Tabloid Godfather. "The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer" is an aspirational book for those lacking every necessary ingredient for achieving success, except ambition and a good idea. In this book, Jack Vitek uncovers how Generoso Pope Jr. created the National Enquirer and changed contemporary journalism forever. While the book is a great business tome for how to construct a company, it says something about the American psyche.One statement says it all about why the National Enquirer was able to expand the scope of journalism. "If you want to know what to put on the cover, just go down to the bar, to the barber,. Thoughtful and (sometimes) funny Generoso Pope Jr. was a mob-connected, obsessive jerk who also had an instinctive grasp of the public's own obsession with the abject and transgressive. He founded and ran the National Enquirer from its early focus on gore to its classic mix of celebrity, self-help, and feel-good stories. When the Enquirer went four color, Pope used its black and white presses to start the much-beloved (by me) Weekly World News. The author mixes keen insights into the tabloidization of the mainstream media with screamingly funny stories about the the well-paid but tyrannized Enquirer work force, Pope's bizarre and unpleasant personality, and. Good info, but boring This book is a look at the Enquirer and its place in American journalism. It has some interesting information about tabloids in general and reporters and their work on the Enquirer. It's kind of a scholarly approach and seems well researched, but the presentation is boring. If you're interested in the publisher and the family, read Deeds of My Father by Paul David Pope, son of the Enquirer founder.
Vitek lays on the mafia lingo a bit too thick--overusing language like "whacked," with a mob movie reference always at the ready--but offers an original American story of a tough, embattled media player with uncanny gifts for giving the public what they want. All rights reserved. ruled and defended his media foxhole (becoming a model for none other than Rupert Murdoch). Vitek's material largely focuses on the fiery management, harsh opposition to, and heavy influence of the Enquirer since 1952, when
They're hard to miss at grocery stores and newsstands in Americathe colorful, heavily illustrated tabloid newspapers with headlines promising shocking, unlikely, and sometimes impossible stories within. He wanted the paper to reflect the middlebrow tastes of America and connect with the widest possible readership. Driven, tyrannical, and ruthless in his pursuit of creating an empire, Pope changed the look and content of supermarket tabloid media, and the industry still bears his stamp. In The Godfather of Tabloid, Jack Vitek explores the life and remarkable career of Pope and the founding of the most famous tabloid of all the National Enquirer. Pope was a man of contradictions: he would fire someone for merely disagreeing with him in a meeting (once firing an one editor in the middle of his birthday party), and yet he spent upwards of a million dollars a year to bring the world's tallest Christmas tree to the Enquirer offices in Lantana, Florida, for the enjoyment of the local citizens. Although the papers are now ubiquitous, the supermarket tabloid's origin can be traced to one man: Generoso Pope Jr., an eccentric, domineering chain-smoker who died of a heart attack at age sixty-one. Grounded in interview