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...Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner walked out, both papers appeared on theInternet-- as did one by the striking workers. Both the Chronicle and the Examiner were set to go on the Internet later this month -- but the strike moved up the date to Wednesday morning. The strikers tabloid, the Free Press, hit the 'net Thursday morning, featuring favorite columnist Herb Caen and a scoop on Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election to the Senate. The Free Press reported thatFeinstein employed an illegal alienin the 1980s, a fact later confirmed by U.S. immigration officials. Employees of the two newspapers...
...search for sensationalism and controversy the Crimson sinks to the level of the worst tabloid press by advancing such ridiculous and unsubstantiated assertions as contained in the editorial. The Harvard Community deserves better from you and expects better from a publication with a long tradition of excellence. L. Fred Jewett '57 Dean of Harvard College
That program -- a sober recitation of news highlights, followed by lengthy segments analyzing two or three major issues, all done leisurely, without flashy graphics or momentous music -- has become an ever more valued alternative to network news. Says MacNeil: "The competition driving the networks now -- CNN, Court TV, tabloid television, entertainment television and magazine shows -- the standards they use have gradually infected what used to be the strict, dignified standards of network news. Now those news shows -- they're like circus barkers who have to exaggerate and hype to haul them into the tent...
Tobacco-linked kids' tabloid is slammed for smokers' rights piece...
Bashing television has become the year's favorite sport among serious Hollywood filmmakers. Oliver Stone's hysterical Natural Born Killers posits a pair of serial killers who become national heroes after they are glamorized on a tabloid TV show. Stone is too fuzzy-headed a satirist to realize that he has got it precisely backward. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair and America's Most Wanted may be guilty of many things, but glorifying criminals is hardly one of them. With their sensationalistic re-creations of lurid crimes, tear- jerking interviews with bereaved family members and relentlessly alarmist tone...