Word: tabloidism
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...electronics manufacturers. Some of the loudest objections have come from the otaku?particularly video-game collectors, a small but fanatical community supporting a lively trade in classics like All-Star Baseball '97 and Virtua Fighter 2 that only play on older machines. "Worst Law Ever!" screamed Weekly Playboy, a tabloid geared towards young Japanese men. While sellers can submit older products for recertification, and some game platforms?most Nintendo decks, along with later versions of Sony's PlayStation 1 and 2?are spared, the law's tangle of exceptions and conditions is only adding to the confusion. Japan's trade...
...City, has triggered a frenzy among Mob watchers. One might think that the revelation of a love child belonging to a Mafia kingpin--four years after his death, no less--would inspire little more than a shrug. But this being John Gotti, obsessive subject of umpteen books, movies and tabloid tales, the mere existence of a hot scoop buried for so long is nothing short of miraculous. The peerlessly aggressive New York tabloids quickly ferreted out an attractive Staten Island mother of three comely daughters, the youngest of whom they speculate carries the Gotti genes. MORE BADA-BING THAN "SOPRANOS...
COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE MONICA'S GIG: A tabloid editor on F/X series Dirt The buzz: Look out, US and In Touch--Cox is most appealing as a meanie...
...waste of state and federal tax dollars. Thousands were no doubt spent on chartering his private extradition jet alone. Now, the U.S. Marshal’s service might argue that Entwistle’s posh return-flight and subsequent motorcade were necessary owing to security reasons (stemming from his tabloid cover-boy status), but this argument makes little sense. If security were really such a concern, then one might imagine that the Marshals and state police would find it more effective to extradite Entwistle in secret—outside of the media spotlight—and transport him to jail...
...strange aftermath of the Danish cartoon scandal, the most insightful and incisive critique of the affair and the subsequent reaction came from within the Muslim world itself. Jordanian journalist Jihad Momani, in a piece for the Jordanian tabloid al-Shihan—for which Momani has been subsequently vilified—posed the following question: “What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras, or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony...