Word: tabloidism
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Eyes twinkling, hands folded across her swelling belly, Arlette Schweitzer imagines the headlines a tabloid might concoct to sensationalize her admittedly unusual condition. The exercise amuses her no end -- probably because there is nothing the least bit bizarre about this cheerful 42-year-old librarian who lives with her husband Dan, a fluffy white cat named Boom Boom and a cocker spaniel named Special on a tree-lined street in Aberdeen, S. Dak. What a visitor notices above all in their cozy, split-level house is the photographs of smiling kids: grandchildren, nieces and nephews and, over the living-room...
Brookings Institution analyst Stephen Hess likens the lowered standards to "a tabloid-laundering operation in which respectable news organizations get into a story through the back door by reporting on a tabloid's reporting on a story." The value of Brokaw, a respected pro who wins journalism awards and dines at the White House, in such a cleanup operation is high. In April, Brokaw sanitized the use of the name of the alleged Palm Beach rape victim in the William Smith case under the guise of reporting on the ethics of a supermarket scandal sheet, which had used the name...
...ROYAL STUD (II). Fergie's husband Prince Andrew received some unwelcome publicity four weeks ago when a 1983 full-frontal nude photo snapped by a friend was published in an English tabloid...
...book about women, were published in Britain's Sunday Observer, Cresson, 57, claimed that it was "not fair play" to pull an old conversation "out of a drawer." Throughout England, stiff upper lips quivered. "They don't call Paris 'Gay Paree' for nothing, you know," retorted the tabloid...
Like a brash rookie slugger who can't handle big-league curves, the National sports daily struck out last week. The flashy tabloid, owned by Mexican media mogul Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, never really connected with readers and advertisers, and it lost $100 million in just 17 months of publication. Its problems were compounded by "an economic climate that was getting worse and worse," said editor and publisher Frank Deford. Declaring WE HAD A BALL on its final front page, the first U.S. daily devoted entirely to sports printed its final edition last Thursday...