Word: tabloidizing
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...staff returned to school this past September to face its own financial troubles, the split between Salzmann's views and the staff's became problematic. Salzmann suggested scaling back the magazine's frequency of publication, using black and white instead of color on the pages, or changing the tabloid's format...
...Milan. But there are drawbacks as well: gossip columnists feast on your every hem length and heel height; sycophantic employees copy your wardrobe; and photographers with prodigious egos must be flattered and indulged. And then there is the pitfall of having your earnest editorial pursuits overshadowed by the more tabloid-friendly stories of where you stand on sable or mink and with whom you are allegedly...
...verge of becoming trivia questions, who share a history of disappearing. She, a faded sitcom actress and the erstwhile beauty queen of the title, once emerged unscathed from a plane crash, taking advantage of her freak escape to go into temporary hiding and watch coverage of her "death" on tabloid TV ("A small-town girl makes it big and then small again"). He, a producer of Bruckheimeresque action flicks (e.g., Bel Air PI) starring guns, aliens and lame one-liners, once walked away--literally--from his life and possessions, wandering the strip-mall wilderness, Dumpster diving for burgers...
...BARBARA WALTERS AND MONICA LEWINSKY (ABC) Walters' three-hankie national catharsis turned the impeachment marathon back into the good old-fashioned tabloid scandal it was meant to be. Ridiculed and infantilized in the media for months, Lewinsky was surprisingly sympathetic, confident, unrepentant and, well, telegenic...
Final clubs play no role in the lives of the majority of students and are just not newsworthy. If The Crimson aspires to be anything more than the tabloid it has become, start talking about things that matter...