Word: tabloidism
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Glorified. The fun part about committing a stupid crime is that the media learns to love you. I would become the darling of the Boston Globe, my hometown newspaper the Monitor, and every supermarket tabloid in existence. The Crimson would practically circulate around me for at least a semester. Headlines would range from, "Psycho Senior Holds Kiosk Roast" to "Rodriguez protests, 'I'm Still Not Sorry!" to "Hewitt Visits Harvard in Anti-Arson Platform." Editorial letters that either give shame to my very existence or staunchly fight for my rights to burn would run nonstop. Gradually, a cult following would...
Last week, just as MADONNA signed on to play an intrusive tabloid reporter in an upcoming film, ROBIN WRIGHT PENN was starring in Message in a Bottle, a film in which she too plays an intrusive journalist. Have the wives of Sean Penn forgotten how much they hate the press? A summary to date...
...TABLOID FRONT: Amy Fisher's father reached out to Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the woman Amy shot in 1992 and the wife of Amy's onetime amour, Joey Buttafuoco. In an interview in the New York Post, Mr. Fisher pleaded for "compassion" from Mary Jo. Dominic Barbara, a lawyer for Joey, revealed that in July, Amy's mom and Mary Jo met for seven hours: "I'd use the word heroic for the way these two women treated each other...
...headlines on the Israeli papers Friday--the thick, multi-sectioned equivalent of the Sunday ritual back home--had tabloid fronts of the king in his kaffeyiah, the red-and-white checkers falling over the fold, and a young Jordanian boy kissing this official portrait on the streets of Amman. In the moments before the news blackout that is Shabbat here, the prime minister's office said all Israel wished well for the royal family; on Saturday, many synagogues included the king's name in the prayers for the sick. Sunday, when the king died, Israel was one of the first...
Bill Clinton has been dogged for years by the rumor that in Arkansas he fathered a child of an African-American prostitute. In 1992 the tale was flogged by the tabloid Globe. But it really took off last week when news leaked that the tabloid Star was conducting DNA tests to confirm or refute the rumor once and for all, provoking a frenzy of speculation in Washington after the story leaped, in the usual fashion, from the Drudge Report to the New York Post to papers around the world. Using the Starr Report's FBI analysis of Clinton...