Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roots in the journalism business took hold in 1972, when he co founded The Real Paper, an "alternative," left wing Boston tabloid that approximated. The Village Voice in style and content. With little experience in building and managing a fledgling newspaper Rotner became. The Real Paper's first publisher...
...effect, Donaldson is the television equivalent of the hard-sell tabloid newspaper. He appears more interested in emotion, in the fates of careers and in the flow of power than in the substance of Government. He gives an apocalyptic tone to even humdrum stories: after two of Reagan's Cabinet aides resigned in January to take lucrative jobs in industry, Donaldson intoned that Reagan was "the only President in modern times to lose four Cabinet members in less than two years." He ended a report about a less than climactic presidential press conference with the hyperbolic warning that Reagan...
...heroin and cocaine. Early that afternoon the wasted comedian was dead in his hotel bed, and a Hollywood hanger-on named Cathy Smith was in Los Angeles police custody. But Smith, who had been with Belushi all night, was not charged with any crime. Two months later, the tabloid National Enquirer reportedly paid her $15,000 for an interview. The paper quoted her (inaccurately, she claims) as saying that she had given Belushi the fatal hypodermic dose...
...people cheer? Why did a television station send cameras to film a man commiting suicide at all? There is no psychological commentary to explain the phenomenon we are exposed to every time we turn on local television news or read tabloid newspapers--the desire to get a little entertainment our of somebody else's tragedy. What explains banner headlines about parents killing their children? What explains the fact that whenever there is a shooting or a serious traffic accident the camera van from a television station often arrives before an ambulance...
...ongoing battle of British royalty vs. the press, Queen Elizabeth II has won a decisive round. After Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch's splashy London tabloid the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) ran the first installment of confessions by a former palace pantry servant, the Queen took the unprecedented step of suing Murdoch's news organization and her onetime employee for damages. In an out-of-court settlement last week, the Sun agreed to pay the $6,000 it would have given the ex-servant and he ponied up his $150 advance, all of which the Queen donated...