Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Friday night, local boy and Hollywood heartthrob Ben Affleck came home to Cambridge to nurse his wounded heart after his tabloid-fodder breakup with a certain diva. Apparently, there were several female Harvard undergraduates at Brother Jimmy’s who have degrees in nursing the hearts of jilted big-screen heroes, and accepted their payments in the form of drinks and flirtation. The only problem? At the end of the night, Affleck found himself a little strapped for cash, and had to dash to the nearest Fleet. Fortunately, he didn’t have to go hunting for Good...
CHARGED. DANIEL PELOSI, 40, electrician; with second-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of wealthy Manhattan financier Theodore Ammon in Ammon's ivy-covered East Hampton, N.Y., mansion; in Riverhead, N.Y. The case captured tabloid headlines, as Pelosi married Ammon's widow three months after the murder. He has pleaded not guilty...
Everybody in Japan knows that for journalistic thrills, you turn not to the nation's bland, daily newspapers but to its ribald, tabloid weeklies. They carry everything from celebrity gossip, true crime and light porn to serious investigative reports and political expos?s. But some of the publications that pride themselves on embarrassing the rich and powerful are finding that their targets are now striking back. Last week the Tokyo district court ordered Shukan Bunshun to halt the distribution of its current issue?after 740,000 of the magazine's 770,000 print run had already been shipped to stores...
...David Kelley insisted that the government was not singling out Martha Stewart for prosecution to make an example of her in an era of spectacular corporate corruption. Take him at his word. But Stewart was no ordinary Jane who traded on inside information to make a quick buck. Her tabloid celebrity, her status as a walking, talking brand name, and her role as CEO of a publicly held corporation turned what would otherwise have been a simple case into a treacherous web of legal and corporate issues. And at almost every turn, she and her advisers made the wrong move...
...March 2 betdirect.co.uk Median Auction Maiden Stakes. Then, to the astonishment of the punters at Lingfield Park, the six-time British champion jockey glanced over his shoulder and appeared to ease up - and the 8-11 favorite Rye passed him on the line. What had happened? The Sunday tabloid News of the World published a story alleging Fallon had predicted to its undercover reporters that his horse would lose the race and that Rye would win. The paper also alleged that there had been "unusual betting patterns" on the race. Fallon denied the implication that he had thrown the race...