Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graders like trading cards. After Chris Mills killed himself in March, crisis teams went to the school but talked mostly with students in his class, the 11th grade. There was no opportunity then to identify Alicia, who knew Mills slightly, as a particular copycat risk. The local press and tabloid-television reporters made much of the fact that both girls hung with a crowd that wore black clothes and black lipstick and listened to gothic music, as if they belonged to some death cult. Their friends think this is ridiculous. "I used to have a class with...
...things have been going a little too smoothly for a little too long, the fates decide to thicken the plot. The Oxford-bound scholar comes up 1-A in the draft, the boy Governor gets tossed out by Arkansas voters, the earnest presidential candidate morphs into a skirt-chasing tabloid cartoon--and Clinton has to run harder and smarter to catch up with his dreams. Which is why some of the President's closest advisers have been anxiously peering beyond his gaudy poll numbers to the next, and inevitable, setback...
...trip was arranged by Max Clifford, a London p.r. whiz who, with one wave of a press release and two calls on his mobile phone, can transform the dreariest story from an M.P.'s jilted mistress into tabloid gold, earning big headlines--and even bigger bucks--for himself and his clients. "O.J. can't get fair press coverage in America," said Clifford. "So he's here in England, where the press is much more objective...
...first day Clifford slotted in a few tabloid journalists for quick "exclusives." The results were anything but objective: "His dark eyes stared into mine," wrote the Sun's Amanda Cable, "and I felt a shiver go up my spine. Suddenly he leaned forward, touched my arm and roared, 'You're trying to ask me if I've been laid since my trial!'" Not exactly. Cable had asked whether he had been "dating...
...does Fox's record in TV news inspire much confidence. Local Fox newscasts often stress tabloid sensationalism, and Fox's best-known contribution to TV journalism is the now canceled magazine show A Current Affair. Fox News Sunday is an attempt to establish some mainstream credibility. Despite its bumpy start, the show has done that, eliciting a few newsmaking quotes in its first weeks from such guests as Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Executive producer Marty Ryan, who once ran NBC's Today Show, says the program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden...