Word: tabloidal
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...different tenor to broadcast news aren't indulging in hazy nostalgia or false memory. It really was different: hour-long documentaries (CBS Reports, NBC Reports, ABC News Closeup) were commonplace in the 1960s and '70s, touching on everything from civil rights to foreign policy. As for the stuff of tabloid journalism, broadcast news was much more like the New York Times than the New York Daily News. (When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe broke up in 1954, the Daily News splashed the story all over Page One; the Times buried it on page...
...what changed? For one thing, competition. Until the 1970s, networks could offer "serious journalism" knowing that viewers had noplace else to go. The explosion of cable and satellite communications made it possible for network competitors to distribute tabloid TV shows like Hard Copy and afternoon talk shows that viewers lapped right up. The rationale for this expansion of the scope and language of news was that all-purpose term relevance. Coincidentally, that was the opening through which all kinds of "new" news rushed through the gates that once separated mainstream journalism from its black-sheep brethren. Thus the divorce...
...Browns, however, had their own behavior to defend in the custody case. It was revealed that Louis Brown had earned $262,000 since his daughter's death by selling her diary to the National Enquirer and the home video of her wedding to a television tabloid show. In addition, sister Dominique confessed that she had sold topless photos of Nicole to the National Enquirer. None of this helped the Browns. Simpson used his two days on the stand at the custody trial essentially as a warm-up for the testimony he would give in the civil proceedings...
Simpson lawyer Robert Baker moved for a mistrial, which was denied. Plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli asked Fujisaki to sequester the jury for the remainder of their deliberations, citing the likelihood of further interference from aggressive tabloid reporters and book agents, several of whom quickly offered five-figure sums to the dismissed juror for an interview. Fujisaki declined, although he did revoke the courtroom pass of a Los Angeles TV station whose camera crew attempted to follow the jurors' van from the courthouse. He ordered the jurors to avoid all radio, television and newspapers until they reached a verdict...
...searches through all the stories they'd written, looking for sneers at trailer parks or disrespectful references to Dolly Parton. It seemed to be only a matter of time before some self-appointed guardian of professional standards stopped around to inquire whether I had ever, say, dissed a supermarket tabloid for reasons of class...