Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles police to Markhasev, took center stage and pocketed a $100,000 reward for helping solve the case. The check was issued by the National Enquirer, which had posted the hefty reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Cosby's killer. For his payday, the tabloid had generously outfitted So in a baseball cap sporting the cheeky logo ENQUIRING MINDS...
...faced and silent Bill Cosby stole the show with a brief appearance at closing arguments. What was most notable about the trial was that it might not have taken place at all were it not for the efforts (and deep pockets) of the nation's most widely read supermarket tabloid. The trial's two key pieces of evidence, the murder weapon and a series of incriminating jailhouse letters written by Markhasev, were both unearthed with the help of the Enquirer. After reading about the reward, So called the tabloid's Ennis Cosby hot line with a tip that...
...crossed the minds of many legal experts as well. In an era when tabloids compete for scoops with their checkbooks, telling all to a tabloid is usually a surefire credibility killer. The O.J. Simpson prosecutors, for example, had to strike at least one promising witness who was discovered to have taken money from a tabloid TV show. In the Cosby case, however, the Enquirer did more than just buy a scoop; it offered a reward for information leading to a conviction. "The key concern is that people may fabricate evidence to collect rewards. Then innocent people can be convicted," warns...
Occasional British-style tabloid feeding frenzies and endless controversy over its educational merit have left the folks in Teletubbyland--actually six acres of farmland outside Stratford-upon-Avon--more than a little press shy. But TIME was recently permitted a rare look at the filming of two sure-to-be-classic episodes: "Don't Pull That Lever, Dipsy" and "Laa-Laa Has an Orange Ball." As Tubby body parts roll by in wheelbarrows and crew members carefully place live rabbits and racks of fake flowers on the Day-Glo green Home Hill, Davenport cautions, "There's a lot of intervention...
Hitler and the holocaust remain the 20th century baseline for the discussion of evil, the ne plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...