Word: tabloidism
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...show doesn't have much of anywhere to go. To be sure, Jerry goes to hell in Act II, where he is host of a show featuring Satan and Jesus--but our hearts are still with those angst-filled transsexuals and diaper fetishists back on earth. Bash our tabloid-TV shows all you want, but a little conflict resolution might be nice. --By Richard Zoglin. With reporting by James Graff/Paris and Aisha Labi/London...
...have five meetings and you as my opponent have one, should you have some air time? It's an editorial decision." But it's not hard to see how Uzan's media serve his broader agenda. Last week, as the battle with Erdogan heated up, Uzan's Star tabloid ran a photograph of the Prime Minister as an earnest young man, sitting at the knee of a bearded Afghan, whom the newspaper identified - wrongly - as a "Taliban terrorist," a picture that Erdogan quickly dismissed as "insignificant." Back in his office, Uzan rolls up his sleeves to display a rash...
...probably grew up ... drinking gigantic amounts of beer and gorging himself on fried potatoes." Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who had been planning to spend a couple of weeks at an Italian friend's home in Pesaro, on the Adriatic coast, was goaded into action by the powerful German tabloid Bild, which suggested that Stefani had "spaghetti for brains" and challenged Schröder to "Nix Bella Italia." Playing to a German national pride that's taken a pounding during the endless economic slump, Schröder announced that he and his family would be enjoying their holiday ... at home...
This article included enough lurid details of the brothers' atrocities for a prime-time TV soap opera or a month's worth of tabloid news. We know now that they were abusive, predatory, murderous criminals, but the oddly glamorized relish with which you chronicled their deeds has the scent of misguided Hollywood idolatry. DEAN LAMANNA Venice, Calif...
FILED. A $100 MILLION LAWSUIT, by J.K. ROWLING, 37, author, and by SCHOLASTIC, U.S. publisher; against the New York Daily News, after the tabloid published details about the plot of the new, fifth Harry Potter book; in New York City. The suit claims that the newspaper damaged Rowling's intellectual-property rights and harmed Scholastic's $3 million global marketing campaign. Booksellers worldwide had to sign an agreement with the publisher, forbidding them from selling any copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix until 12:01 a.m. Greenwich mean time on June...