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...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 the point with headlines from ABC News ("More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source"), including "Michael Jackson Reveals...
...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 isn't even...
...point is this: the general media have become host to tabloid content. Steve Coz knows this, and he's getting a bang out of moralizing from a position of weakness. The mainstream media have failed to do their job, namely to speak up for their reader by explaining the events of the big world to him or her by highlighting what is important, not what is entertaining. That's a job for the tabloids. What's important, like state budgets, the spread of disease and urban planning, can be made interesting because these are the issues that matter to real...
Leaders in the fields of journalism, photography, law and academia--including the Editor of the National Enquirer--discussed tabloid journalism at the John F. Kennedy School's ARCO Forum last night...
About 75 people were present for the panel discussion titled: "Tabloid Journalism: Is it the People's Right to Know...