Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looking cover photo for our report on shark behavior elicited some rather, well, biting commentary from a few of you. "That TIME would demonize the majestic white shark to sell magazines shows true desperation," snapped a New Yorker. "You will only hasten its demise." A Seattle reader objected to "tabloid-news antics" and questioned why TIME "devoted a cover to shark attacks since, according to the article, dogs bite many thousands more people than sharks do." A tad more appreciative was a reader from Michigan who said he was "glad to see my lawyer made your cover...
...Even in Washington, Cold War victory has left an ambiguous legacy. An inevitable showdown with an "Evil Empire" is no longer the organizing principle of national politics. The symptoms of that absence are varied and often morbid, from the new depths of tabloid tawdriness plumbed in Washington's partisan battles over the past decade to the palpable absence of a sense of national purpose or global mission in the capital...
...packed with TV cameras going live - although the media horde trailing Condit somehow missed him leaving a late-night committee session last week to meet with the FBI and Washington police for a fourth interview. This time the questions were meant to help them compile a profile of Levy. Tabloid reports alleged that Levy and Condit's wife had shared an angry phone call in the days before Levy disappeared. D.C. police dismissed the report, but it was still the talk of Washington...
...through the '90s there flowed a rich and gaudy stream of sensational stories that were providentially suited to the purposes of 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week cable television news. They were the tabloid equivalent of war - that is, in the absence of world-historical events or the fall of empires, they filled the news hole, they fed the many-headed media beast. Once the Soviet Union and the Cold War were gone, we have had Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the O.J. Simpson case, Waco, Oklahoma City, the death of Princess Diana, Colombine, the Icarus descent...
...week after Condit finally admitted to police that he had had an affair with Levy, new and ominous information emerged--from investigators, from tabloid sludge to website Drudge, from the incessant talk-show tales told by another "other woman" (a flight attendant with fire-engine red hair) to the claims of a father who said his daughter's fear of her former lover had driven her into hiding. The Condit legal team fought back, volunteering DNA samples, allowing searches, proffering a polygraph test. But the recriminations have not stopped, not from the cops, not from the press and certainly...