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...wanted to know was why it is that tabloid journalism has become legitimate--legitimate enough to hold a forum on it at the Kennedy School of Government. And the answers from the tabloidists present was that tabloidism is legitimate because it has been absorbed into the mainstream, and Steve Coz was sitting there to prove...
...past two or so years, since he was put in charge of editorial content for the Enquirer, Coz has been out to prove the worthiness of tabloid journalism to American democracy. He has declared that his magazine will no longer publish stories or photos of manufactured events, though he admits the concept of an event's construction is itself open to interpretation as a matter of degree. (A post-modern editor!) He has written an op-ed piece for The New York Times which, he told me, was solicited from him by The Times, though the paper has a policy...
Some might say that Coz has an inferiority complex. He did, after all, go to Harvard. And he did, he says, write for the Independent here. He has worked for the Enquirer since 1981, just two years after his graduation--a whole career. So it is possible that he feels the need to justify his choice of "profession." Luckily for him, historical circumstance has made his job a great deal easier: the tabloid doesn't have to reach very far for legitimacy because the standards of legitimacy have deteriorated to the level of the tabloids. Coz was quick to make...
...Coz is right: the media's gone tabloid. And it's not just ABC. Think of Dateline NBC's faked car crash-ups. But it's not just TV news magazines. Consider all the local broadcasts featuring child sodomies and Kennedy delinquencies. Nor is it just television. How about Newsweek's cover story this week: "Galaxies: How the Universe Began; How it Might End." But not just weeklies. Even The Times has become fixated on Marv Albert's trial. Coz was correct in remarking, "Marv Albert's toupee falls off during sex, and the country goes crazy." But tabloidism...
...academic moralizing will affect the press. Why? The media--large and small outlets alike, and in all forms--are increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a few corporations who have as their bottom line the bottom line. Profits, baby, are the name of the game. And as Steve Coz, Russell Turiak and even Marty Singer know, sex, drugs, money and all other prurient interests sell. (That's why the seven sins--or was it 364--are sins, because they are attractive.) Journalism students are trained professionals--trained, that is, to serve their master. And what corporation cares about what...