Word: tabloidism
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...Prince and Princess of Wales acted wisely on behalf of their sons, because the media coverage was extraordinary. Every paper, broadsheet and tabloid was lying in wait with exhaustive stories. The next morning, the Sun devoted 26 pages to the split. To judge by reaction in the streets, it was a sad day. The fairy-tale marriage was finally over after 11 years, and people were sorry to see the last gleaming gossamer fade into cobweb...
Copies of the The New Order, a bimonthly 12-page tabloid, were distributed to homes in Cambridgeport and West Cambridge last week. The issue featured such articles as "Meltdown U.S.A." and "My Aryan Family...
...turmoil of '92 began when Sarah Ferguson, or Fergie, the notorious Duchess of York, decided that a cramped, duty-bound life-style was not for her and bolted, leaving a trail of dubious liaisons, outsize bills and scandalous tabloid shots of her cavorting topless with a boyfriend in front of her two children. Then Diana went public with her marriage troubles, allowing her brother and close friends to talk to Andrew Morton, whose best-selling book, Diana: Her True Story, detailed her depression, bulimia, suicide attempts and estrangement from her prince. By royal standards of conduct, in which silence...
Whatever rules of taste and fairness once governed even tabloid coverage of the royals have been consumed by the present feeding frenzy. The family has become fodder for London's fierce circulation wars, now particularly hot between the Daily Mirror and the Sun, two working-class tabs. Competition to move the story forward often means making up whatever elements are missing. On the much anticipated royal reunion trip to South Korea two weeks ago, the couple hit the front pages looking sad and sour, under headlines like TORTURED and THE GLUMS. But palace aides deny this, and the conservative Daily...
...control themselves." Russian President Boris Yeltsin has made another plea for economic aid. "Those stupid lazy bastard Russians," snaps Stern. "They're under communism so long they can't even produce anything." Amy Fisher, the Long Island teenager charged with murder, has just appeared on a TV tabloid show. "I wanted her to take off her clothes," says Stern. Former Rifleman star Chuck Connors is dead: "I never liked him. Hated that show...