#tabloid magazines

[justsayun]

Getting to know Me.

So how have you been handling the cold weather?  I'm over it.  My goosebumps have flown south for the winter.  With Spring getting closer I figure we will be able to mingle with people again.  So I thought it might be nice if I had some things about myself I could easily share with those I'm just getting to know.  I'll share some with you.  First off I've never been a member of someone's fan club.  I would love to see that lady from the commercials who's fallen and can't get up, get herself up on her own.  Just brush herself off and say, "Hey no problems here."  I also will never try and give someone marriage advice.  My only marriage insight is early on the wife and I sat down and had a long heart to heart and we agreed that I will never be Chip Gaines or Ty Pennington.  I do get a kick out of some of those tabloid headlines you see at grocery store checkouts.  I admit they're ridiculous but still fun to read.  For example, You'd see a magazine headline in bold type, "Jesus the Untold Story."  I'm curious.  How Jesus preferred a fake Christmas tree to a real one.  He would only wear high-top sandals.  And believe it or not, Jesus had one girl in school he called a skank.  Sure I don't believe it, but I'd have fun reading it.  My wife would yell at me for picking the magazine up, but, I would tell her, "I'm just trying to learn more about the Bible."  It's been one heck of a year.  I'm not accepting this new normal.  I want the real normal back.  I did manage to take my wife out for Valentine's Day.  Yes, I made a reservation and everything.  yep once every few years I rise to the occasion.  She had mentioned how she'd like to revisit Niagara Falls since that's where we honeymooned.  I offered a compromise.  How about we take a slow drive-thru a car wash?  I won't share her response.

[statelibrarynsw]

Pix magazine now available online

Australia’s post-depression resurgence from 1935 to 1939 coincided with a change in the tempo of public thought and the arrival of new pictorial magazines like Pix which gave the public new ways to imagine Australia and themselves. By the early 1930s, nearly all the magazines previously published in Australia had ceased production and only a handful of the well-established titles from the turn of the century were still in circulation.

Pix played an important role in the post-war aspirations which shaped Australians and their sense of national identity, albeit in a playful, light-hearted manner. At the price of sixpence, the heavily illustrated magazine featured a uniquely Australian mix of scandal, sensationalism, human-interest stories, fashion, politics, culture and entertainment. Its boldly designed covers included a black and white photo, showcasing a Hollywood starlet, fresh-faced Aussie girl (often in a swimsuit) or quirky animal, shot along with attention-grabbing text .

Pix provided many local professional and amateur photographers with an additional source of income by offering top rates for ‘unusual pictures which have not appeared elsewhere’. One of the magazine’s best features was its focus on Australian content with pages of Aussie jokes and cartoons as well as international photo stories. Proudly proclaiming ‘There's knowledge in PIX - every week’, the magazine’s ‘Photo Crime’ series asked ‘how good a detective are you?’, tempting readers to examine the pictures closely for clues to see if they could solve the crime, as well as including a ‘Check What you've learned’ quiz and crossword puzzle in each issue.

Pix also favoured more liberalised attitudes towards sex in its articles and, following in the wake of the late 60s and 70s sexual revolution, became even more daring with its covers and content – often running stories focused on adultery, hedonism and nudity. At the height of its popularity in the 60s and 70s, Pix magazine was read by millions of Australians. The proliferation of tabloid periodicals like Pix, saw the launch of Australasian Post (1946-96) and People (1947-68); so similar in content were Pix and People that the two titles actually merged in 1971.

Every issue of Pix from 29 January 1938 to 25 December 1954, has been digitised and made fully searchable online as part of the State Library's Digital Excellence Program. This is a major initiative supported by the NSW Government.

View the digitised Pix collection on Trove.

By Margot Riley, Curator, Research and Discovery, State Library of New South Wales, 2017

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[newsdock]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The publisher of two tabloid magazines says it never intended to imply that Tom Cruise had abandoned his daughter after his divorce. Source: Associated Press [view]

[eh7150]

[Pacific Rim] Tabloid magazines style...

[indycena]

Tabloid magazines like Us Weekly and the like have put me in a position that I didn't really feel like being in: Being angry on Kim Kardashian's behalf.

[imlgoulden]

I saw a magazine cover at work a while back which had 'Celebrities use baskets too!' written in massive letters across the front. I had to use every ounce of my being not to shout 'NO SHIT' in front of the customer.

[the-big-misadventuremoved]