Word: scandalize
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...That scandal claimed the scalp of BBC1 boss Peter Fincham, who resigned on Oct.5. Two weeks later, BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and nonfiction programming, and to sell the BBC's iconic West London headquarters, Television Centre. Management is now trawling its staff for volunteers for layoffs. Says Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and currently a journalism professor at London's City University: "The BBC's problems are manifold. There are more dramas at the BBC than ever get shown...
...What's more, with George Mitchell's report on baseball's sordid steroid history due out by the end of the year, the owners wouldn't be dumb enough to toss another scandal into the off-season mix, right? "Hopefully, baseball has learned its lesson from the past," says Karcher. "From a business perspective, they're doing so well from so many different standpoints, I'd just be surprised if collusion would take place." But remember, we're talking about baseball here, where there's always room for another botched play...
...lawyers-turned-journalists, it’s sometimes a struggle to bring meaning to a national obsession with sensationalist legal cases such as the Scott Peterson murder case and the Michael Vick dog-fighting scandal...
...three panelists revealed a celebrity-crazed underbelly to their work. They identified race, sex, and celebrity as pivotal factors in making “the crimes of the century” that they cover—from the Anna Nicole Smith affair to the Duke rape scandal...
...panelists peppered the discussion with anecdotes about sitting next to La Toya Jackson at the Michael Jackson trial and experiencing the circus of mass media that descended on Eagle, Colo. during the Kobe Bryant scandal...