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I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
by Bill Sloan
from Prometheus Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Inside View Of Tabloid Journalism
  "I Watched A Wild Hog Eat My Baby" is an inside account of the rise of the supermarket tabloids in American culture, written by a veteran of tab editorial staffs. No doubt because of that, it suffers from the same flaws, full of innuendo and rumor-mongering, giving you a juicy if never solid story.
  At the heart of Bill Sloan's book, published in 2001, is Generoso Pope Jr. In 1952 he bought a nearly-defunct Hearst paper called the New York Enquirer. Remaking it into a scandal sheet called the National... more info

• Where is the CIA info
  "I Watched a Wild Hog EAT My Baby!!!" by Bill Sloan, reviewed by Tim
  Cridland

  I just speed read the new tabloid book published by Prometheus Press. I
  checked it out from the LA Public Library and read most of it in one day.

  The name of the book is I Watched a Wild Hog EAT My Baby!!! and it is
  written by Bill Sloan, who apparently worked for a few of the tabloids in
  the 70s.

  There a few things that are in this book that I haven't seen elsewhere. One
  is a thorough background of Generoso... more info

• The horror of learning the truth
  The true horror about this book was learning how The National Enquirer, Star, etc. are now not only not competitors, but all housed in the same building. Then it gets even grimmer when you read how The National Enquirer is trying to go legit...It's all so shocking and sickening. Who wants to read about death as a result of idiot guidance and ownership? Just turned my stomach and, quite frankly, made me sad. Honestly, I'd noticed for quite some time that the Star was losing its edge and this book explained... more info

• Most current, and comprehensive, history of tabloids
  This extensively-researched history of American tabloids was released in 2001, the only post-1999 tabloid book so far. That's relevant, because since 1999 all major tabloids (Enquirer, Star, Globe, Examiner, Mira, Sun, Weekly World News) have been under single ownership. Some tabloid critics lament that this has undermined the tabloids' traditional competitiveness, and significantly altered their editorial policies and news coverage.

  Anything written about tabs a decade earlier would be woefully... more info

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