Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WCCO, a well-respected, top-rated CBS affiliate, is pioneering an unlikely trend in local TV news. While most stations, as well as tabloid shows like Hard Copy and A Current Affair, revel in outrageous crimes and grisly violence, a small but growing number of news operations are trying to stand out by taking a different tack: playing down violent crime, eschewing graphic footage and trying to make their shows "family sensitive." At least 11 stations -- in such markets as Seattle, Miami, Albuquerque and Oklahoma City -- have adopted this kinder, gentler approach since the beginning of the year...
...tabloid TV crews, rested after their exertions over Joey Buttafuoco, Tonya Harding, Michael Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, have rushed back into the trailer park of American sleaze. Is it fair that the President should be vulnerable to lurid my-word-against-his-wo rd charges that might be made by anyone with an impulse to become famous by sliming the mighty...
Could any other tabloid newspaperman have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
...biggest peeve of all is the nosy, mean-spirited press. Usually Streisand tries to avoid reporters. But in a rare interview with TIME last week, she had all the recent slights at her fingertips: a British tabloid that claimed she arrived in London toting her own trash can (it was actually a hatbox); a New York Times op-ed piece criticized the dress she wore at the Inaugural gala; a story in TIME listed some of her alleged tantrums. And when, at a dinner honoring Hillary Clinton, she gave a speech about our society's view of women, nobody covered...
Paula Corbin Jones, 27, a former Arkansas state worker, sued President Clinton for $700,000 for allegedly violating her civil rights in 1991 by making unwelcome sexual advances toward her in a Little Rock hotel room. Said Clinton's attorney Robert Bennett: "It is tabloid trash with a legal caption on it." A number of witnesses have supported aspects of Corbin's story, but her case was undermined somewhat by her sister Charlotte Brown, who told an Arkansas television station that Jones told her she "smelled money" in her allegations...