Word: tabloidism
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...business, there's no telling what further mess Prince Charles would get into, but not if he had to answer to a higher authority, Michael Eisner. Once Disneyfied, all the royal characters would be subject to the same rules as the regular Disney characters, who don't make a tabloid spectacle of their eating disorders and ski trips. Certain Disney characters speak only in the movies, where they follow the script; when they are sent out in public at the theme parks, they are as mute as Harpo Marx. A mute button would be the best thing to happen...
ROSS BECKER SAYS HE WAS fed up with tabloid television when he left his job as a local TV anchorman in Los Angeles last year and moved to Kentucky, where he now owns an FM radio station. But that didn't stop him from becoming a featured player in the most fervently followed tabloid story of the decade. A week before Christmas, he got a call from an acquaintance, infomercial producer Tony Hoffman, who asked whether Becker would like to conduct the first extended interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges last October...
...course, recognizing an addiction is the first, most important step on the road to recovery. "I just said, 'Basta!' " explains the host, whose mix of tabloid breathiness and self-aggrandizement discerning readers will have already identified as belonging to Geraldo Rivera. Last week Rivera publicly vowed to clean up his eight-year-old daytime show, long criticized--or celebrated--as one of TV's tawdriest. How would this work in practice? "We're not going to go into the cycle where if you do hookers on your show, we'll do hookers and their daughter hookers...
Forecasters at many local TV stations seemed, to paraphrase E.B. White, almost to be rooting for the storm on Sunday and Monday. "Local weather coverage has assumed tabloid proportions," TIME's Sam Allis reports from Boston, where television stations have promoted the storm and even recent, lesser bombardments "as if they are events of biblical proportions. One tunes into the eleven o'clock news to find scary, Siberian-like numbers written across a regional weather map. Only later do we find out that the minus forty-one registered in Worcester is, in fact, the wind-chill factor...
...celebrity wedding isn't really an occasion unless exclusive photo rights have already been sold to a tabloid magazine. So everyone should have been blissful when the celebration of TONYA HARDING's second nuptials (and her 29-year-old husband MICHAEL SMITH's fourth) were captured by a Globe magazine photographer in return for $10,000. Instead, police were called in after a guest sold a photo to the Oregonian for $100. Harding, worried that her contract with the Globe had been nullified, accused the guest, known only as Bob, of theft, saying rolls of official photographs were missing...