Word: tabloidism
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...almost a decade, with eerie regularity, the gods of media have provided gaudily gruesome three-ring tabloid circuses of news...
...under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a touchy subject for Renfro, who had a 1998 drug-possession charge dropped after reaching an agreement with prosecutors. Renfro was freed on a $10,000 bond and allowed to begin work on Bully, a film co-starring other young tabloid favorites, Rachel Miner (Macaulay Culkin's soon-to-be ex-wife) and the reigning princess of trouble, Bijou Phillips...
...Apple's rough-around-the-edges tabloid went a bit schizophrenic in its coverage: In a box dissecting the candidates' Labor Day activities, the Post printed "asshole" in its early editions, although not in the larger article describing the flub. In a reprint of the box, editors substituted "a------" for the epithet...
...another tabloid week for the Olympic movement. At the track-and-field trials in Sacramento, Calif., sprinters Michael Johnson and Maurice Green moved their gums as fast as their legs, trading insults at a record pace. On the human-interest front, there was Marla Runyan, legally blind, qualifying for the team at 1,500 m, and Gabe Harmony Jennings, a happy eccentric from Forks of Salmon, Calif., announcing himself as a miler to be reckoned with. Finally there was Magnificent Marion Jones qualifying for what seemed to be every event...
...Nixon the wife-beater, who, according to Summers' busy spinning of hearsay and rumor, hit Pat severely before, during, and after the White House years - blackening her eyes, sending her to emergency rooms. Summers' account is a tabloid masterpiece put together with no real evidence, only second- and third-hand eyebrow-waggling and inference-projecting. You get the picture when you see that Summers gives a psychologist's profile of your typical wife-beater ("rigid, impersonal, and inadequate to deal with stress," "values that respect rigid sexual stereotypes") and concludes - eureka! - "It is fair to say that Nixon conformed...