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Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Having started as an egalitarian answer to 19th-century newspapers, tabloids came to peddle shock and sleaze. They've cleaned up a bit, but they remain the world's guilty pleasure. Learn more about the fascinating history of tabloids with Chuck and Josh in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hello everybody.
0:32.5	Have you ever been followed around by a person with a camera, taking pictures of you and
0:36.7	your family and your children, and then publishing them in a newspaper or a weekly rag?
0:42.8	Well, that happens to people.
0:44.1	It doesn't happen to me.
0:45.1	Probably doesn't happen to you, but we're the lucky ones.
0:47.8	But if you're celebrity and then you kind of sign up for this, it's not great to be
0:51.8	followed around by tabloid photographers and be splashed across those tabloid magazines.
0:57.0	And this is all about tabloids from July 5th, 2012.
1:01.4	How tabloids work?
1:08.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:11.5	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:18.9	I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:22.8	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
1:24.4	It's podcast, it's audio only.
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