Word: tabloidization
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...music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group with a notorious aversion to the press hit the front pages. scots band in brits fix scandal, raged the tabloid Sun. Of course, there was no fix. The band's intensely loyal - and Net-savvy - network of fans had mobilized their votes. Those fans have remained, but their ranks have never swelled as fast as their Brits success - and beguiling, intelligent pop output over six albums since the band first...
...comes a flashpoint when everyone's talking about the same thing. Call it the Bennifer blitz, the Monica moment, the Janet Jackson distraction. Ground down and fed up by news that matters, Americans lock their vision on a movie-star romance, a sex scandal, a Super Bowl oops as tabloid headlines and talk-show hosts exploit and orchestrate the public's evanescent fervor...
...blond, she's curvaceously configured, and she has those remarkably proportioned lips. Naturally, in tabloid land, they figure Scarlett Johansson for the latest in the long line of movie bombshells dating back at least to Jean Harlow. That is an image that her appearance as Nola Rice, tragic fulcrum of the plot Woody Allen has devised for his well-received new movie, Match Point, is bound to enhance?except with Johansson herself: "I never think about that stuff. I like to think of myself as, I go to work and I act. It's my professional life...
...morning of Sunday, Dec. 11, a crowd of some 5,000 people - overwhelmingly young men - gathered near Cronulla beach. Most had responded either to a mass-circulated text message that called on "Aussies" to reclaim their beaches from "wogs" and "Lebs," or to enthusiastic publicizing of the event by tabloid media. Among the less offensive slogans scrawled on bare chests or emblazoned on T shirts were wog-free zone and ethnic cleansing unit. For several hours, police stood by as testosterone-charged participants sang, chanted, waved Australian flags and drank alcohol. Eventually, perhaps inevitably, the mood of hundreds of protesters...
...politics," alleges Reinhard Bütikofer, a leader of Germany's Greens. Now there are calls for a code of conduct governing former politicians' access to the private sector. Schröder brushed off the criticism as "a lot of nonsense," reportedly suggesting he might sue one German tabloid for allegedly overstating his salary. Still, Russia seems to be courting pols in the West. Reports claim Putin earlier this month offered the chairmanship of Russian state oil firm Rosneft to former U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, a close friend of President Bush. Rosneft is readying for an IPO next year...