Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Friday, a 12-page insert placed between pages of The Crimson was distributed to students on the Harvard campus. Published by the Human Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund, it was entitled, "She's a Child, Not A Choice," Printed in tabloid format, this publication portrays itself as journalism. It is propaganda...
Last Friday, a 12-page insert placed between pages of The Crimson was distributed to students on the Harvard campus. Published by the Human Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund, it was entitled, "She's a Child, Not A Choice." Printed in tabloid format, this publication portrays itself as journalism. It is propaganda...
Glorified. The fun part about committing a stupid crime is that the media learns to love you. I would become the darling of the Boston Globe, my hometown newspaper the Monitor, and every supermarket tabloid in existence. The Crimson would practically circulate around me for at least a semester. Headlines would range from, "Psycho Senior Holds Kiosk Roast" to "Rodriguez protests, 'I'm Still Not Sorry!" to "Hewitt Visits Harvard in Anti-Arson Platform." Editorial letters that either give shame to my very existence or staunchly fight for my rights to burn would run nonstop. Gradually, a cult following would...
Last week, just as MADONNA signed on to play an intrusive tabloid reporter in an upcoming film, ROBIN WRIGHT PENN was starring in Message in a Bottle, a film in which she too plays an intrusive journalist. Have the wives of Sean Penn forgotten how much they hate the press? A summary to date...
...TABLOID FRONT: Amy Fisher's father reached out to Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the woman Amy shot in 1992 and the wife of Amy's onetime amour, Joey Buttafuoco. In an interview in the New York Post, Mr. Fisher pleaded for "compassion" from Mary Jo. Dominic Barbara, a lawyer for Joey, revealed that in July, Amy's mom and Mary Jo met for seven hours: "I'd use the word heroic for the way these two women treated each other...