Word: diana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diana L. Adair '98 placed a personal ad in The Harvard Crimson earlier this year not for herself. "Harvard Mom seeks Harvard Dad," the ad reads, "for friendship, maybe romance...
...featured speaker was the editor of the National Enquirer, Steve Coz '79 (that's right, a Harvard alum). His compatriots were a celebrity lawyer, Marty Singer, who represents the likes of Demi and Arnold, and a paparazzo, Russell Turiak, who was there to plead innocent to the death of Diana. And their collective function was to argue about Russell's rights of access, Steve's salubriousness in print and Marty's malignancy in the courts--essentially, questioning the worthiness of celebrity journalism in America...
Using the example of the controversy surrounding the death of Princess Diana, Russell C. Turiak, a member of the celebrity paparazzi with 20 years experience, described the "hypocrisy" of the traditional media when evaluating tabloid journalism...
...said that in the Diana case in particular, the traditional press was no better than tabloids in covering the events. He criticized the general media for pretending to be something they were...
...other panelists were Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies; J. Bryan Hehir, professor of the practice in religion and society; James Kloppenberg, professor of history at Brandeis University; Cornel R. West '74, professor of the philosophy of religion and Afro-American studies, and Ronald F. Thiemann, dean of the Divinity School and O'Brian professor of divinity...