Word: tabloidism
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...player finds a namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...
Michael Jackson and Lisa-Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter, are in fact married, according to Lisa-Marie. In an unlikely twist that confirmed a frantic month of tabloid blare, Jackson's MJJ Productions issued a statement saying that Jackson, 35, and Presley, 26, were married 11 weeks ago in a private ceremony "outside the United States." The site of the blessed event, according to the tabs: the Dominican Republic. Said Presley: "My married name is Mrs. Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson. . . . I am very much in love with Michael, I dedicate my life to being his wife. I understand and support...
...tabloid covers also serve as a sort of keystone to the audience for what is happening in the film. My advice would have been to include the tabloid covers with their emblazoned announcements such as "Cop Gives Waitress $2M Tip" throughout more of the film and ditch the awkward narration by Angel...
...channel), the talkathon played six or more hours a day. Afternoon ratings soared 24% above their usual levels; prime-time specials were available for the law- impaired and the jurisimprudent. If you still couldn't get enough, you must have contracted Simpsonitis, an inflammation of tabloid curiosity, which has evidently attained epidemic proportions in Los Angeles; at least station KCBS- TV deemed that affliction worthy of a special news report. We have reached the nadir of infotainment: infotaint...
...tabloid's successful formula has also encouraged other publications to test the limits of the acceptable. Forum Keadilan, a biweekly newsmagazine, has used similar investigative techniques to boost its sales from 20,000 to 120,000 over the past year. Even the once cautious English-language Jakarta Post, with a 30,000 circulation, has doubled its Indonesian readership with more hard-hitting stories and editorials...