Word: tabloidism
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...generated months of lurid headlines around the world, and featured as much confusion as prurient curiosity. A Perugia judge offered the first big dose of clarity late Tuesday after all the contradicting defense alibis, allegations of police mishandling of evidence and a prosecutorial reconstruction more chilling than any tabloid account. After 12 hours of deliberation, Judge Paolo Micheli found Guede, 21, guilty of the murder and rape of Kercher, and ordered Knox and Sollecito to stand trial on the same charges...
...News of the suspected announcement was reported earlier this morning by the British tabloid The Sun. Citing a source close to the pair, the newspaper said disputes over the amount of time each devotes to their career and Madonna's wish to adopt another child reportedly destroyed the couple's attempts at reconciliation "like a sledgehammer...
...WestLB, and even the federal government isn't a brilliant manager. Last month, on the very day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, state-owned KfW sent a check to Lehman in New York for $466 million - earning itself the title "Germany's dumbest bank" bestowed by the biggest circulation tabloid, Bild-Zeitung...
...Britons harbor doubts about their politicians - and surveys suggest that they trust them only fractionally more than they trust tabloid reporters - then this week's annual conference of the governing Labour Party may have reinforced their skepticism. For the convocation of activists and career politicians in the northern English city of Manchester was choreographed to banish the one ingredient it purported to promote: public debate. On that measure, Labour scored a resounding success...
...single major policy initiative in the face of opposition from his ostensible governing partners in the conservative People's Party, which was looking for any excuse to break up the marriage. The final straw appears to have been Gusenbauer's promise, in a letter to a mass-market tabloid, that the Social Democrats would not approve any future E.U. treaty amendments without a popular referendum, a measure that the pro-E.U. conservatives said they could not accept. The latest polls say that a paltry 15% of Austrians want to see another grand coalition after this month's vote...