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Some 300 journalists, not to mention innumerable tabloid-TV types from shows like A Current Affair and Hard Copy, have converged on this drowsy resort. Local TV news shows, with their marvelous ability to manufacture hysteria, pump images out to the heartland every night, creating the inaccurate impression that the trial is a drama conducted at a fever pitch and that the media coverage is a "zoo." A zoo it may be, but one with very small, very docile animals...
...Beatty is "ecstatic" about becoming a father and has even embraced the Lamaze method (the child is due in three weeks). Bening burbles that Beatty will be "an attentive, caring father." He enjoys the tabloid stories his new domesticity has inspired: "I've invented a birthing tank, we've enrolled our daughter in an English boarding school, I've been visiting sick babies...
When Robert Maxwell went over the side of his yacht off the Canary Islands, it was a death scene made to order for pulp publishing. He could have made millions with the tabloid rehash in his popular weeklies, the trash book and the movie and television rights. But without him to patch together such a deal, the ripples from his final fall threatened to sink some of the media empire he had built...
...Shakespeare presents the shift from Richard to Henry as a changing of the guard, a clean break from one style of kingship to another. And yet the "divinity ((that)) doth hedge a king" (a Shakespeare phrase from another play) still clings to the British monarchy 600 years and innumerable tabloid gawkfests after the events Shakespeare described...
Eberhart understands that SETI people are "embarrassed by unfologists in general because there are a lot of wacky people out there," and he admits that "a lot of what passes for ufology is wishful thinking." But he makes a definite distinction between the type of work UFOS does and tabloid-style sensationalism...