Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...balmy period in her 54-year reign. The tabloid fodder of Charles and Diana, Andrew and Fergie, the death of her beloved mother at 101, are all behind her. Charles is at long last married to Camilla, which according to courtiers has reassured his parents about his long-term soundness; Princes William and Harry appear to be well launched. Robert Lacey, one of the Queen's biographers, says the long-running Windsor saga has resonance with the public once more. She has become a matriarch in autumn, presiding over "a family happy once again, the more credible for the traumas...
...When You Wasn’t Famous.” The Streets (the nom de rap of one Mike Skinner) treat us in this video to a lighthearted romp through a high-priced rehab facility, complaining all the while about the camera phones and tabloid reporters that are always on hand to capture bad behavior. How, he asks, is he supposed to snort a line in front of a bunch of strangers if they’re all taking pictures of him? Ah, the tribulations of fame. These lyrics, straight off tabloid front-pages, are delivered to the receptionist...
Queen Elizabeth II turns 80 on April 21. In her 54 years on the throne, Her Majesty has presided over the emergence of a diverse and modern Britain, seen her family become tabloid fodder and declined all interview requests. Her third child, Prince Andrew, 46, a former Royal Navy pilot, sat with TIME's Catherine Mayer and J.F.O. McAllister at Buckingham Palace to discuss his mother's job, her love of horses and the time a footman pulled a chair out from under...
Already this is fun. But it gets better. The story was broken by the Daily News, locked for decades in a fratricidal tabloid war with the Post. The scoop gave News owner Mort Zuckerman delicious revenge against Post owner Rupert Murdoch. The Post, which is cooperating with the FBI, has suspended Stern, meanwhile noting that he was only a part-time underling of Page Six editor Richard Johnson...
...certainly, from now on, an item, twinned in tabloid scandal. If there's anything lovelier than reading the dirt in Page Six, it's reading the dirt about Page...