Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROSEANNE sued the National Enquirer for publishing her stolen love letters. In February, she'll act as the tabloid's guest editor. "They're a very influential magazine," says the talk-show host, who apparently possesses a bountiful capacity for forgiveness. "I read stuff about myself in the Enquirer, and two years later, it shows up in the New York Times." Roseanne is no cub reporter. In 1996 she acted as a consultant for a "women's" issue of the New Yorker. "I've gone from the supposed highest literary peak to a real working-class one," says Roseanne...
Allegation 4: that Frank offered to "snitch on lefties for the FBI," as an unsavory tabloid put it. Again, the baselessness of this charge can be quickly deduced from its failure to jibe with what we know of Francis Albert's character. Leaving aside for the moment the question of how the Rat Pack may have gotten its name, consider: If Frank Sinatra had been angry at communists, would he have sneakily tattled on them? Of course not. He and his pal Jilly Rizzo would have headed for the nearest saloon where the dirty reds hang out, picked...
This just in: Readers hate all that tabloid journalism. Really. A survey of 3,000 citizens finds that sensationalism, bad reporting and poor grammar have given Americans a declining faith in the credibility of their local newspapers. The American Society of Newspaper Editors study finds that about 80 percent of those surveyed said newspapers print sensational stories simply to sell papers; nearly half of those polled are angry with their local rag for running misleading headlines. And in a finding sure to brighten the job prospects of copy editors everywhere, more than one third said they found a spelling mistake...
...threatens to leave; they reconcile and have a baby. So with the couple's fourth child almost a year old, reports are surfacing that their marriage is on the brink. Recently Jagger was spotted emerging from the home of an ex-mistress, model Carla Bruni, and last week tabloid headlines shrieked the news that a Brazilian model is carrying Jagger's baby (the woman denies the rumor). Jagger is also reportedly irked by his 14-year-old daughter's new modeling career, which Hall supports. Perhaps he's worried she'll have to fend off aging rock stars...
...portfolio of publishers: health nut Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), who used his first magazine, Physical Culture, as a vehicle for promulgating his views on carrot eating, cold-water bathing and frequent, vigorous sex. (He was for all three.) Largely for his fulminations on the last, his racy tabloid, the New York Evening Graphic, which specialized in covering violence and sex, became known as the "PornoGraphic." His legacy is with us even now: it was Macfadden who invented the "composograph" or composite photo, in which the heads of real people in the news are superimposed on the bodies of models posed...