Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Osbourne's and Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall Martha Stewart further pays her debt to society on The Apprentice...
...marital-bonding experience: his court hearing for allegedly beating her, a charge that Houston has denied. (We learn that their daughter gets out of school on daddy's "court days," like other kids do on snow days.) Brown has said he signed up for the show to counter his tabloid image, but also to boost an R&B career that peaked in the Reagan Administration. "I'm just an entertainer, man, that is trying hard to get back in," he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
...Smith is one of those movies that has been marked with every possible harbinger of doom: reshoots, budget overruns, megastar casting woes, mid-shoot script rethinks and, of course, a notorious did-they-or-didn't-they on-set hookup between the two principals. So fervent is the tabloid interest that the two stars, who should be promoting their movie, are on another continent. Can the movie rise above its reputation? Will dozens of wrongs actually make a right...
...France and Spain. The rise in free papers is one more headache for traditional dailies, already smarting thanks to competition from online and television news providers (Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, last week announced plans to shrink its title's European and Asian editions to tabloid size in October). Daily newspaper circulation fell across much of Europe between 1999 and 2003, dropping 2.3% in France, 6.2% in the Netherlands and 8.1 % in Germany. As many paid-for titles fight for readers, free dailies - typically stuffed with enough short, sharp international and local news, business, sports...
...think they haven't noticed. Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, the parent company of U.K. publisher News International, admitted in February that Associated's free Metro may have dented circulation of his top-selling Sun tabloid by as many as 40,000 copies per day. "The record of these free newspapers has been ... to more seriously damage existing newspapers," Murdoch said. In the U.S., at least one prestigious publisher felt it had to join the free movement; the New York Times Company in January bought a 49% stake in Metro International's Boston operation for $16.5 million. Even Associated...