Word: tabloidism
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Dramatized "re-creations" of real-life events are suddenly everywhere. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair, Fox's America's Most Wanted and NBC's Unsolved Mysteries use them to re-enact just about everything from grisly murders to purported UFO sightings. Now the technique has entered a region some thought sacrosanct. It is the centerpiece of two network prime-time news shows: NBC's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (which drew good ratings in three outings in late summer and will return for three more this season) and the just-introduced Saturday Night with Connie Chung, on which Jones appeared...
Well, not really. This week, Yankee outfielder Luis Polonia was given a two-month sentence for having sex with a minor. Once again, George's boys have managed to steal the headlines. The front page of Tuesday's New York Post read: "Jail Bait." Love that classy tabloid journalism...
...World Series, of course, was the pinnacleof my spectatorial career. Mookie hit The GroundBall, Buckner misplayed it into the history books,Jesse O threw his mitt on to the front page ofevery New York tabloid and the Mets piled on tothe mound for a drunken champagne celebration thatlasted hours...
...PREPPIE MURDER (ABC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). The tabloid shows had a field day with it. Now the case of Jennifer Levin -- the New York City teenager killed during a session of "rough sex" in Central Park -- is rehashed as a TV movie...
...contends that the P.D. fails to serve the market. "Two-thirds of the households do not read the Post-Dispatch," he claims. "The great challenge is that two-thirds, the unwashed, if you will, who are simply not interested." To reach them, the Sun will be a color- splashed tabloid "for today's video world." Post-Dispatch chairman Joseph Pulitzer Jr., who disputes Ingersoll's figures, declares, "We defend our franchise, and we will be vigorously competitive...