Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putative White House plot to smear Ken Starr's deputies; a wave of supposed Clinton paramours rising from the files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back to where it began--Monica Lewinsky...
Private letters written by Princess Diana to her lover James Hewitt during their 1989-91 affair have been handed over to Kensington Palace after a woman attempted to sell them to a tabloid newspaper. Hewitt's fiancée, Anna Ferretti, 39, tried to sell 62 handwritten letters to editors of the Mirror for $250,000, saying she wanted to sell them before Hewitt did, the paper claims. The letters ("said to be highly personal and emotional," according to the rival Daily Mail, revealing Diana's "innermost thoughts about the collapse of her marriage") reportedly had been taken from...
...other worldwide tomfoolery: British newspapers went overboard, as usual, with tall stories of the sublime and the ridiculous. The buttoned-up Independent carried an "exclusive" leak on plans for Tony Blair's modernized House of Lords, in which their lordships will be chosen from the public by lottery. The tabloid Daily Mail went for something a bit fishier: "Red Herring Returns After 500 years...
...claims to have had an on-again, off-again sexual relationship with him from the mid-1970s until 1992. In January of that year, while Clinton was weathering the Gennifer Flowers storm, Browning says she got her first taste of intimidation from the candidate's camp. When the Star tabloid was preparing an article on her relationship with Clinton and called her for comment, Browning said in a declaration released by the Jones team, she informed Clinton's secretary and asked her to have him call. Instead, Browning alleged, she got a call from her brother, who was working...
...scandal sheet in question -- The Star -- still insists Gecker was pushing for that amount. Editor Phil Bunton considered Willey?s story to be ?not worth more than $50,000.? And Gecker doesn?t deny talking to the tabloid altogether, nor does he deny that Willey was looking for a book deal from publisher Michael Viner. At week?s end, these little details -- along with Julie Steele?s claim that Willey asked her to lie to Newsweek -- have done more to damage Willey?s credibility than any White House spin doctoring...