Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...their sale. He insisted he was merely safeguarding her image by keeping the belongings in his loyal hands. Now that he's been acquitted of the charges after the Queen stepped in to defend him, Burrell is profiting not from Diana's belongings but from her life story. The tabloid Daily Mirror has paid him a reported $400,000 for exclusive details of Diana's life, and he is singing like a canary, claiming that Diana smuggled lovers into her home while dressed in little more than a fur coat. Sparing the royal family, Burrell is instead indicting Diana...
...doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning an eight-day walkout starting Nov. 22 - and two more...
...have to acknowledge the obvious: that Hongkies get their sensation in tabloid form these days, by reading about the sins of the stars in the tell-all, show-all local press. But where else have they to go for sick thrills? The golden age of Hong Kong horror is dead - as dead as a fellow who?s just seen his wife have sex with a devil fetus and jumped screaming from an upstairs window. Fortunately for us, it?s also able to be revived, in zombie form, on home video and, lustrously, in the occasional repertory theater. For those connoisseurs...
...this month, when Britain's Channel 4 begins airing his series, Revolt in Fashion. Like most fashion documentaries, it tells us what we already knew: that the business is less about art than about money. The few so-called scoops - magazine stylists also moonlight for fashion houses - are hardly tabloid fare. Hemingway begins by declaring: "Parts of the fashion industry stink, and I'm getting the air freshener out." But what we get is pretty stale...
...from the People's Princess. Then the Queen speaks up and you're cleared of all charges - but that's when your reputation really starts to take a pounding. For Paul Burrell, the former butler to Princess Diana, life has been like that ever since six of London's tabloids began hounding him mercilessly. Burell's real crime: selling his story to another paper. Two weeks ago Burrell was riding a wave of public sympathy. His trial for stealing 310 of Diana's items, from handbags to photos to a ceremonial sword, collapsed when Queen Elizabeth recalled that shortly after...