Word: tabloidism
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...back. No, not Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's Rupert Murdoch, who's trying to prevent the termination of the bankrupt New York Post. Five years ago, after Murdoch bought a New York TV station, federal regulators forced him to sell the tabloid. A series of inept owners followed; the latest, Abe Hirschfeld, was so despised that his workers aboused him with headlines like WHO IS THIS NUT? In desperation, New York pols are importuning Washington to let Murdoch buy the Post again. Though staff members cheer, they may still face demands to tighten their belts one more notch...
Apple said the Flowers' allegations of martial infidelity against Bill Clinton appeared first in The Star, the tabloid sold widely in supermarkets. He said reporters who had investigated Clinton in 1990 and 1991 had heard her story but rejected it because she lacked concrete proof and corroboration...
...allowed our agenda to be set by a supermarket tabloid...that we would not give shopping cart room to," Apple said...
...also cited The Times' coverage of the William K. Smith trial, in which The Times published the name of Smith's accuser after a tabloid and NBC News printed her name...
...degree of pious animus directed at him from some conservative pulpits since his election. The Rev. D. James Kennedy, pastor of the 8,000-member Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose religious broadcast is carried on 360 television stations nationwide, earlier this year cited a tabloid account of Clinton's alleged affair with former Arkansas cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers as an indication of the President's moral delinquency. "If his wife cannot rely upon him to keep his vows of fidelity to her in marriage," Kennedy said in an interview, "then why should the country be expected...