two rival corporations, are a mixed lot. That very diversity, Clausen argues, suggests that the stereotype of the tabloid reader-"a gullible, semiliterate gum-chewer of lower-class origins and pathological tastesn-is just "a figment of the educated imagination, en- couraged the mainstream press to empha- size its superiority." If tabloid readers were that dumb, they would not be reading at all.
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