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...ever of a rule forbidding ownership of a newspaper and a TV station in the same market, the Federal Communications Commission gave Rupert Murdoch permission to buy New York City's Post even though he owns the city's Fox TV affiliate. Murdoch had threatened to shut down the tabloid paper, which he has been running provisionally for months...
...fetch me my smelling salts! The Crimson has bumbled yet again, this time making little 'ole me crimson both in rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
...since the "nine items or less" line. A supermarket in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, has acceded to customer demands that patrons shouldn't have to see the lurid covers of the Star and the National Enquirer if they don't want to. So it has banned those and other tabloids from one of its cashier lines (a sign reads TABLOID-FREE CHECKOUT LANE). If the innovation is a success, Harris Teeter, the chain that owns the supermarket, may establish tab-free zones in its 132 other stores...
Before they slip into tabloid history, take a parting glance at Illinois' David and Sharon Schoo. Last year they were the World's Worst Parents, deserting their daughters for a Mexican vacation. On Monday the Schoos were sentenced to community service and 30 days of virtual house arrest, leaving the couple themselves "home alone...
...sight of himself in the mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment in popular culture, he now stands for rehabilitation and forgiveness, almost as if enrolled in some 12-step...