Word: tabloidism
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...town of Novi Sad listened respectfully to the tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed in a Molotov cocktail. For the mourners, Vujovic was simply doing...
Frankly, it’s fairly obvious that the exposé was handled badly; it was a vitriolic indictment masquerading as a feature news story, trashy tabloid fodder dressed in the garb of journalistic legitimacy—in short, not very ladylike...
...speech, Church of England General Synod member Alison Ruoff said, “He is a disaster for the Church of England. He vacillates, he is a weak leader and he does not stand up for the church.” Similarly, there was a typical reaction from British tabloid The Sun, exclaiming that Williams’ claims were “a huge propaganda coup for extremists plotting to end centuries of the British way of life.” This evidently rash reaction to Williams’ comments was also implicitly Islamophobic and intolerant. It was indicative...
...Fearing that public trust in the economic system could erode more quickly, some business leaders are beginning to sound the alarm. In an interview in Monday's edition of the tabloid Bild, Josef Ackermann, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, joined the chorus of voices warning against a loss of public faith in the country's economic institutions. "All of us in business must now make a renewed effort to live up to the responsibilities of our leadership roles and win back lost confidence," he was quoted as saying...
...driver’s license, but the expecting Juno is not “frighteningly talented” so much as she’s frightening. In an era when a trashy Louisianan mother sells the pregnancy story of her underage, Nickelodeon-star daughter to a tabloid, I can’t help but feel uneasy when a movie portrays a young girl who doesn’t even seem remotely affected by her own pregnancy.Maybe I’m just more into passion and drama, but I think most people would agree that a subject like teen pregnancy doesn?...