When Time, Inc. launched People Magazine in 1974, the leading afternoon talk television show, Donahue, brought considered debate about important issues into the nation's living rooms and the leading national daily newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, brought serious news to the nation's doorsteps. People defined the personality-driven style that paved the way for confessional, emotional—often exhibitionistic—television talk shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show in the 1980s, and later, the Jerry Springer Show, to lead afternoon ratings. People's reliance on images rather than insightful text anticipated USA Today's visual, less wordy, approach to news in the 1980s and subsequent ascendance to the top position among daily newspapers in the United States. Striving to capture the intimate and everyday lives of celebrities and the occasionally astonishing lives of everyday people, People further disintegrated the line between entertainment and news, bringing the personal into the public space...