Word: tabloidism
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...Osbourne's and Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall Martha Stewart further pays her debt to society on The Apprentice...
...Smith is one of those movies that has been marked with every possible harbinger of doom: reshoots, budget overruns, megastar casting woes, mid-shoot script rethinks and, of course, a notorious did-they-or-didn't-they on-set hookup between the two principals. So fervent is the tabloid interest that the two stars, who should be promoting their movie, are on another continent. Can the movie rise above its reputation? Will dozens of wrongs actually make a right...
...must occur only once in every row, column and box within a grid, Su Doku has Britons hooked. Since its debut in the Times last November, almost every major paper in the country, desperate not to miss any chance to build circulation, has acquired a version. Tabloid variants come with celebrity endorsements and last week, after the Guardian launched its puzzle, the Times fought back with the first mobile-phone version: download 10 puzzles for $8.30. The newspaper fight began with Wayne Gould, who sold the concept to the Times last fall after almost being turned away at the door...
...France and Spain. The rise in free papers is one more headache for traditional dailies, already smarting thanks to competition from online and television news providers (Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, last week announced plans to shrink its title's European and Asian editions to tabloid size in October). Daily newspaper circulation fell across much of Europe between 1999 and 2003, dropping 2.3% in France, 6.2% in the Netherlands and 8.1 % in Germany. As many paid-for titles fight for readers, free dailies - typically stuffed with enough short, sharp international and local news, business, sports...
...think they haven't noticed. Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, the parent company of U.K. publisher News International, admitted in February that Associated's free Metro may have dented circulation of his top-selling Sun tabloid by as many as 40,000 copies per day. "The record of these free newspapers has been ... to more seriously damage existing newspapers," Murdoch said. In the U.S., at least one prestigious publisher felt it had to join the free movement; the New York Times Company in January bought a 49% stake in Metro International's Boston operation for $16.5 million. Even Associated...