Word: tabloidism
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...that world is about to disappear. The Aug. 27 issue will be the tabloid's last. So to eulogize the Weekly World News, I decided to take some of its writers out to dinner. This was partly because it was the right thing to do and partly because I'm hoping it starts a trend so that someone takes me out for a free meal in a few years. Freelance contributors Duncan Birmingham, a screenwriter, and Mark Miller, a former sitcom writer who provided so much copy he used 10 pseudonyms to make it look like more people worked there...
...while Liz and I returned to London on the Eurostar after our weekend in Belgium, I promptly started a list on the back of a British tabloid (my new favorite reading material) enumerating the various adventures I plan to take this coming school year. I’m starting small, with trips to Inman, Porter, and Davis Squares. I also want to go to the Institute of Contemporary Art and the waterfront Back Bay area of Boston. I want to drive through Vermont to see New England’s beautiful forests as the leaves are changing color. I want...
CLOSING When mainstreamjournalism goes tabloid (witness Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the Wall Street Journal), what's left for the old scandal sheets? The Weekly World News, paper of record for Elvis sightings and space-alien updates, lost nearly half its circulation between 2004 and 2006. The paper version will be killed this month, leaving just the website. In the end, WWN--which unearthed a lost sandal of Jesus in Central Park and an al-Qaeda plot to hijack Santa's sleigh-- failed to see the big picture: the turf of made-up news and celebs-gone...
...years since “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone debuted” to such widespread acclaim in the UK, the books have been translated into 67 languages, broken printing and sales records with each successive installment, and inspired everything from academic theories to tabloid scandals. Even Harvard Square will join in celebrating the culmination of the series by transforming itself into “Hogwarts Square” through midnight tonight...
...unprecedented deal, Prince granted British tabloid the Mail on Sunday exclusive rights to distribute his new album as a freebie. Cutting out record stores, online sellers, and even his U.K. label, Sony BMG, he decided to take Planet Earth straight to the people, and all it cost them was the paper's $3 cover price. "It's direct marketing," the pint-sized popster said when the deal was announced three weeks ago. "And I don't have to be in the speculation business of the record industry, which is going through a lot of tumultuous times right...