Word: tabloidism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Survivor has come along, in effect, to validate an idea he's been nursing for five years. But he thinks the show is pretty small potatoes--nothing more than "mean-spirited office politics being played out on TV." Despite that send-up, Minahan, a onetime producer for the MTV tabloid show Buzz, is an avid viewer of reality TV. "It brings out the worst in everyone. It's exploitative, manipulative, it encourages narcissism and exhibitionism, it's antisocial...But I love it." For, he says, those moments when "a little bit of truth peeks through...
...auteur like Frank Capra. Just how his video record of their crime spree, which includes spectacular arson as well as murder, will help him achieve that goal is the great mystery of his derangement. His tapes are of interest to Kelsey Grammer, playing the cynical host of a tabloid TV show, and they may be the key to an insanity plea that will help the pair cash in after they are caught...
...Because basically he didn't deserve to get it," says David Yelland, editor of the aforementioned tabloid. Although the Branson bid promised to improve the games and deliver more money to charity, the commission questioned whether Branson really had the stuff to make sure it all came off. Yelland suspects that with Westminster still reeling from the Millennium Dome mess, the risk was just too great. "You can bugger up the Dome and win the election," he says. "You bugger up the lottery, and you're really in trouble...
Very rarely does the Wall Street Journal get to talk about matters of the heart. So when it got the chance, the chronicler of high finance went for it with a tabloid's hunger for gossipy detail. The subject: LEONA HELMSLEY, 80. The hotelier and ex-convict had been telling confidants that she was dating her real estate empire's vice chairman, Patrick Ward, 45, and that the two were considering marriage. Apparently, she was totally unaware, until an associate told her, that Ward is gay. Ward left the company in late January but only after purchasing a 60-unit...
...first she planned to raise them along with her three other children but faltered under the pressure of her job and divorce from the twins' father. She also had a new boyfriend. "Who was going to want a woman with five kids?" she said to the British tabloid the Sun, which broke the story. So Wecker decided to put the girls up for adoption. "Please don't hate your mom," she wrote in an emotional goodbye letter...