Word: tabloidism
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Finally, a phenomenon has become so pervasive that it almost goes unnoticed. Everyone seems to have got incredibly nosy. The press is part of this problem, particularly the aggressive new tabloid and infotainment TV shows. But reporters would not yell intrusive questions if they knew their readers or viewers did not care about the answers...
...TABLOID READERS WHO LOOKED FORWARD TO A LUrid trial of Amy Fisher, the New York teenager turned call girl, will have to settle for the Hollywood version of the saga. In a plea bargain, Fisher, 18, admitted her guilt in the May 19 shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a Long Island housewife. In exchange, Fisher will be sentenced in December to five to 15 years in prison for first-degree assault, a reduced charge with the possibility of work release in three years. Fisher has said that at 16, she became sexually involved with Mrs. Buttafuoco's husband Joseph...
...movie director Spike Lee set off a small tabloid uproar not long ago when he suggested that young blacks should skip school if necessary to see his movie biography of Malcolm X when it opens this fall. A hideously wrong message, people said, undermining discipline and education. But Spike Lee understands a central truth: what is occurring today is a war of American myths, a struggle of contending stories. And pop culture, often television, is the arena in which it is being fought...
...with her phone partner "next Tuesday," under guise of a visit to her acupuncturist. True? Who cares, when 40,000 Britons paid $22 each on the first day to call a special phone line and listen to the tape? Three days after this bombshell, the Sun, Britain's raciest tabloid, announced it possessed another juicy phone transcript, this one of a conversation between Fergie and Prince Andrew in January 1990. During this call, the paper claimed, the duchess said she wanted to escape the marriage and go off to Argentina, where her mother lives after bolting from her father. Andrew...
Barring the electronic media entirely would probably not have worked, but giving them access has been a debacle. Buckingham Palace -- meaning the largely blue-blooded coterie of managers who run the affairs of the royal family -- has been stampeded in the TV and tabloid rush to invade every area of formerly forbidden turf. The palace guidelines approving appropriate press coverage of family pageants, such as Charles' investiture as Prince of Wales and the royal weddings, have failed to keep curiosity about other royal activities off limits. But a family that promotes its triumphant moments on TV cannot expect that...