Word: tabloidization
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...London High Court judge has ordered British tabloid News of the World to pay $120,000 in damages to motor-racing chief Max Mosley following a weeklong court hearing involving frank discussions of prostitution, sadomasochism and "Nazi"-fueled...
...Mosley, 68, sued the tabloid for invasion of privacy after it posted video footage of him involved in what it frothily described as a "depraved Nazi-style orgy in a torture dungeon." Mosley admitted to participating in the orgy with five hookers but denied any Nazi overtones. The son of 1930s fascist Sir Oswald Mosley and Nazi sympathizer Lady Diana Mitford testified that, in fact, he finds Nazism unerotic. "All my life, I have had hanging over me my antecedents, my parents, and the last thing I want to do in some sexual context is be reminded of it," Mosley...
...Colin Myler, the tabloid's editor, defended the story as being of "legitimate public interest" given Mosley's role as head of the International Automobile Association (FIA). He also defended the paper's "fair and reasonable interpretation of Nazi-style role-play." In one article, the paper remarked that the striped uniforms worn by the women were "reminiscent of Auschwitz garb...
...week after the tabloid posted the footage online, traffic to its website increased by 600%, and 1.9 million people viewed the clip in which mock prison guards strip Mosley naked, inspect his head and genitals for lice and beat him with a whip. After being caned 21 times, Mosley begins to bleed and has to pause to apply a Band-Aid to his buttocks...
...media can barely contain their excitement. "Germany Meets the Superstar" read the front page of the weekly Der Spiegel in reference to a popular TV show, while the tabloid Bild called Obama "Berlin's New Kennedy!" and gushed, "It's like 1963," describing the presidential candidate as "just as young, sexy and charismatic" as John F. Kennedy. And that's before he's even set foot here...