Word: tabloidism
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...years, Lee's company, Singa Takara Enterprises, struggled to turn a profit selling custom-made spook equipment to clients such as the Iranian secret police. Then, in December, one of Taiwan's tabloid magazines whipped up a scandal by distributing free copies of an X-rated video purported to be of former Taipei politician Chu Mei-feng as she entertained somebody else's husband. The couple was secretly filmed with a thumbnail-sized camera hidden in a bedroom. Since the incident, which became an Internet sensation, Lee can't keep his shelves stocked?and Taiwan is gripped with hidden-camera...
...Wordthief (a word game played with cards) sell out when it was launched at Barnes & Noble in 2000 and become one of the chain's Top 10 sellers this year. Next up from Faby is National Trash!, a game in which players use sensationalistic words to create tabloid headlines to go with wacky photos. So when it's revealed that Professor Plum did it with the revolver in the study, a new generation of tabloid writers will be ready...
Journalists are not often idealized or romanticized these days. Rather the reverse. Journalists' poll numbers are low. They have a corrupted image of lowest-common-denominator tabloid sensationalism, of superficiality and bias. Commentators, left and right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl--not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...
That only adds to the perception that cell-phone operators could do more to stop mobile mayhem. In the U.K. the tabloid press has regularly accused service providers of guilt by inertia. "Their pathetic inaction is responsible for a crime wave and pretty soon someone is going to be murdered for their mobile," blasted the Express. The French daily Libération also attacked service providers for their slowness in finding a solution...
...LANTANA LIT: Sneer at tabloid journalism if you will, but the National Enquirer sold 6.5 million newsstand copies of its issue with Elvis peacefully at rest in his open casket. In September, Iain Calder, the Enquirer?s editor-in-chief for 30 years, will detail such feats of tabloidism in an as-yet untitled memoir for Talk Miramax. This is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried, even before they?re buried...