Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RICHMOND: Did she or didn?t she? Kathleen Willey?s attorney, David Gecker, finally broke his silence to deny claims that his client tried to sell her story to a supermarket tabloid for $300,000. ?We were never motivated by money,? says Gecker in Friday?s New York Times. Willey, he admits, is in arrears for exactly that amount -- but ?it would have been better for her to declare bankruptcy and discharge the $300,000 debt than write a story and receive only...
...guest star. His role is not so much supporting as hovering--like God in the Old Testament. He shows up occasionally to bring fear, awe or happiness to the mortals who are at the center of the story. He asks them to slaughter their first principles, hurls plagues of tabloid headlines their way, gives their lives meaning and hope with his captious majesty. Except, of course, that Jack isn't God. In luring his team toward corruption, twisting their idealism into realpolitik, Stanton is Satan...
Under that blaring headline, Britain's Sun tabloid, heralding "a world exclusive," declares that "Camilla Parker Bowles is secretly staying overnight with Prince Charles in his London home." The paper asserts the two share "at least two nights a month" at Charles' St. James apartments and that Camilla last arrived there Monday. "The pair are said by friends to be more in love than ever and 'happy to breathe the same air.' But their hush-hush arrangement is bound to shock millions still grieving over the death of Princess Diana," says the Sun, which highlights the point that Camilla...
...federal judge ruled Monday that Martha Stewart can go ahead with her libel suit against the National Enquirer, which alleged in an article that the lifestyle deity had a "borderline personality disorder." The tabloid had asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the offending article was based on the opinion of at least two "experts." But Stewart's lawyer argued that the Enquirer presented the accounts as evidence of a medically proven condition. Stewart is seeking $10 million in damages...
Harris, who is under probation specifically over bacteria, may remain under scrutiny. A New York City tabloid called him a "mad scientist." And, if all this had been a movie, Harris might well have been sent by central casting. The 46-year-old has a full beard and a spastic eye. Then there is his home in Lancaster, Ohio. The first thing you notice when you enter Harris' world is the smell, the stench of numerous cats and dogs in a cramped bungalow. This is laced with the subtler scent of a basement filled with dried foods, stockpiled...