Word: scandalous
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Unfortunately, most newspaper readers will never pay for content online, and the Detroit Pulitzer reveals some of the problems of old world print publications. The Kilpatrick story was about scandal, betrayal, and the abuse of power. In those departments, it was a match for some of Shakespeare's best work. But the series of articles probably did not get the Free Press more than a few new subscribers, and no one would have paid for it online. Just after the story broke, the most important and interesting parts of the information were on the local Detroit TV and radio stations...
...settled in for a screening of the year's first big prestige picture: State of Play, a political thriller starring Oscar laureate Russell Crowe as a crusading newsman and Ben Affleck as a prominent Congressman whose career is threatened by a sex-and-murder scandal. This is my kind of cinema sirloin, organic and artfully prepared. Yet something in me anticipated leftovers. The film is a distillation of a 2003 BBC miniseries, also called State of Play; and I'd recently seen and revered that show. Not that the American movie couldn't have improved on the British series...
...priest-meets-girl drama that's now a President-admits-baby scandal. According to a paternity suit filed in Paraguay last week, Fernando Lugo was 48 years old when, a decade ago, he began an amorous relationship with a 16-year-old girl, Viviana Carrillo, in the impoverished San Pedro province. At the time Lugo was a Roman Catholic bishop - and Carrillo was preparing for the sacrament of confirmation. Lugo denies that the affair began when Carrillo was a minor. But she says she was "seduced by the way he talked, his pretty words, his beautiful expressions," according...
...century dictators like General Alfredo Stroessner. Lugo has since pushed for essential measures like land reform. What Paraguay is getting instead, at least for the moment, is "a telenovela," says respected investigative journalist Mabel Rehnfeldt of the newspaper ABC in the capital, Asunción. Yet she predicts the scandal will not damage Lugo's presidency too badly - for reasons that reflect both Latin America's machismo and its modernization. "Many Paraguayans on the one hand will say, 'Here's a man simply demonstrating he's a man,' " says Rehnfeldt, "while others will say, 'This is the 21st century...
...health-care reform and an offensive against Paraguay's deep-seated official and business corruption. "These are the things Paraguayans care more about him confronting at this point," says Rehnfeldt. "If he starts delivering on them, then his popularity won't take too big a hit from the paternity scandal." If he doesn't, however, Paraguayans might make Lugo pay not just for his failed promises as President, but also for his broken vows as a priest...