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...about a male-prostitution scandal. The paper followed up that scoop two weeks ago with claims that Frank and other Congressmen used the private House of Representatives gymnasium for sexual frolics. Though editor in chief Arnaud de Borchgrave bristles at the notion that the Times is turning to tabloid-style journalism to make its mark in the nation's capital, he slyly promises "more to come." Some Washingtonians may take that as a threat...
...unlikely ever to share a byline. As editor of the gray-tinged daily Pravda, Afanasyev, 66, has been less than eager to rush into print any of the startling revelations or investigative spadework that has become the hallmark of glasnost. On the other hand, Starkov, 50, oversees the weekly tabloid Argumenty i Fakty, whose sharp prose and readers' letters more often than not dwell on the changes sweeping the country, and helped make the paper the most widely read in the Soviet Union. Yet last week both men faced pressures far worse than those posed by deadlines: Afanasyev was summarily...
...late 19th century gave rise to two new kinds of photographer: social reformers, who showed the faces of the poor, and globe-trotting photojournalists, who hunted news for the great tabloid empires...
Freed by Mikhail Gorbachev to report on the corrupt and famous, Soviet journalists are busy pushing glasnost toward its tabloid outer limits -- tracking down space visitors and exploring psychic mysteries. Science takes a whirl with fantasy. Fiction runs away with the facts. Humanoids abduct humans...
Trash TV: The unseemly scandal alleged to surround the Society of Black Professional Entrepreneurs and its ex-president, Harvard Law student Kevin T. Watkins, appears to have caught the caught the eye of one of the nation's leading purveyors of infotainment. A scout for the syndicated tabloid-style TV show Inside Edition attended Watkins' arraignment Thursday on charges of rape and assault and battery...