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This just in: Readers hate all that tabloid journalism. Really. A survey of 3,000 citizens finds that sensationalism, bad reporting and poor grammar have given Americans a declining faith in the credibility of their local newspapers. The American Society of Newspaper Editors study finds that about 80 percent of those surveyed said newspapers print sensational stories simply to sell papers; nearly half of those polled are angry with their local rag for running misleading headlines. And in a finding sure to brighten the job prospects of copy editors everywhere, more than one third said they found a spelling mistake...
...threatens to leave; they reconcile and have a baby. So with the couple's fourth child almost a year old, reports are surfacing that their marriage is on the brink. Recently Jagger was spotted emerging from the home of an ex-mistress, model Carla Bruni, and last week tabloid headlines shrieked the news that a Brazilian model is carrying Jagger's baby (the woman denies the rumor). Jagger is also reportedly irked by his 14-year-old daughter's new modeling career, which Hall supports. Perhaps he's worried she'll have to fend off aging rock stars...
...portfolio of publishers: health nut Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), who used his first magazine, Physical Culture, as a vehicle for promulgating his views on carrot eating, cold-water bathing and frequent, vigorous sex. (He was for all three.) Largely for his fulminations on the last, his racy tabloid, the New York Evening Graphic, which specialized in covering violence and sex, became known as the "PornoGraphic." His legacy is with us even now: it was Macfadden who invented the "composograph" or composite photo, in which the heads of real people in the news are superimposed on the bodies of models posed...
Power not only corrupts, but it fascinates--absolutely. Consider the cult of the biography, the aura of the Kennedy Camelot myth and the endless tabloid intrigues of the British royals. From Shakespeare to Lewinsky, Napoleon to The Godfather, few things are as enthralling as the machinations of power: trying to seize it, trying to keep it, losing yourself in it. In its best moments, Shekhar Kapur's new biopic Elizabeth fascinates with the gleam and glamour of the very, very powerful. Though its Elizabethan Godfather pulp style strains the limits of historical revisionism, the spectacle of young Elizabeth's entrance...
This book is not a tabloid that claims to havelocated the "real" Charles Lindbergh, Jr. out inNew Mexico, or a detailed account of the life ofan American hero. It is a story about one woman'sattempt to come to know her own family more fully,and her desire to share that journey with us.Lindbergh writes that "Although it is now morethan twenty years since he died, we are stilldirected and dominated by our father's strength ofcharacter. And although she is more than ninetyyears old...we are still redeemed, gentled andsustained by our mother." In this moving familyportrait...