Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tabloid-TV anchors announce a bloody feud between two of Verona Beach's most notorious clans--thug royalty, whose young princes have the family name tattooed on their skulls. The streets of this resort town sizzle with ethnic enmity, with nose thumbing on a nuclear scale, with the attitude clash of drag queens and skinheads. When the hormonal humidity is this high, only fools fall in love. So the daughter of one clan has eyes only for the son of her dad's hated rival. She searches for him in her dreams, by her swimming pool, beneath her balcony. "Wherefore...
Calvert's a sturdy candidate in a new but already Republican-leaning district. In 1993 he became tabloid fodder when the Corona police caught him in his car with a convicted prostitute. Even then, he beat his Democratic opponent handily. This year he is eager to win an election based on issues alone...
...Tabloid journalism has played a major role in upending traditional news standards and dividing the audience. While upscale outlets like the New York Times and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer cover the budget battles in Washington and the strife in Bosnia, more mass-audience-friendly publications and TV shows dig for details on Liz Taylor's health and Princess Di's divorce. Each time these tabloid stories seep into the "serious" press, it sparks another round of hand-wringing debate over whether news is what people "want" or what they "need." Many editors were privately dismayed at the massive amount...
...with a robust, well-observed appreciation for the egotists who are drawn into the web of splashy criminal trials. Newcomer Wyler is a prosecutor turned defense attorney who lives in a world ethically messier than his predecessor's. Wyler's father took bribes, he himself cuts deals with smarmy tabloid reporters, and he is not above seeking the limelight. There is a becoming earthiness to Wyler that LaPaglia pulls off effortlessly...
Producers whose movies have been denounced as degenerate by Bob Dole move freely about, often on their way to Democratic fund raisers. So do publishers who increased their bids on Dick Morris' book after the Star recorded his unfortunate foot fault. So do newspaper barons whose tabloids milked the Morris case for thousands of headlines, none of which, I feel compelled to point out, matched the one a London tabloid used several years ago to announce the sacking of a British Cabinet minister who, it was revealed, had similar sexual tastes...