User:TonyManz

User:TonyManz

I am creating a new article on the term of art “Circus Make-up.”

"Circus make-up" is a term used to describe a helter skelter “circus” make-up of the front page of a newspaper, seeking only novelty. Not a balanced and symmetrical arrangement of headlines and other front-page display. “The third class – the helter-skelter “circus” page – frankly, has no scheme of arrangement at all. It simply seeks novelty and variety by scattering headlines in a kaleidoscopically changing mass each day.

NEWSPAPER EDITING A MANUAL FOR EDITORS, COPYREADERS, AND STUDENTS OF NEWSPAPER DESK WORK, By Grant Milner Hyde Published by READ BOOKS, 2007, p. 207.

See other references in the newspaper industry at http://books.google.com/books?ct=result&q=%22circus+make+up%22+newspaper&btnG=Search+Books

The term generically is used to describe a document that has a confusing and disorganized appearance.