Word: tabloidizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...calling it into question. Like a film critic, I try to voice opinions of both style and substance; if you disagree with me, that's fine, but at least I will have said what I'm thinking. (This in and of itself separates The Crimson from a certain tabloid mentality, wherein a writer may only be saying what they think others will pay money to read...
...commercial flight in October 1993 that she and Gifford began a flirtatious relationship that continued over the phone. "Some people would call our talks phone sex," she writes. "But that cheapens what we had." As luck would have it, Johnson lives in the heart of Florida's "Tabloid Valley," between Globe headquarters in Boca Raton and National Enquirer offices in Lantana. After finding out about the flirtation, the Globe established its own relationship with Johnson, a 46-year-old former flight attendant, allegedly paying her $75,000; that's $50,000 more than Sherry Rowlands received from the Star...
...initial story revealing Gifford's infidelity, in the May 20 issue of the Globe, is what editorial director Dan Schwartz calls the "conservative version." But when Kathie Lee lashed out at the tabloid, predicting it would soon publish a story about the alien baby she and her television co-host Regis Philbin would be having, the Globe shifted into a lower gear, publishing pictures of Gifford and Johnson groping each other, along with the steamy dialogue between the two. In the latest issue, Johnson begs Kathie Lee to forgive Frank...
Even folks normally devoid of sympathy for chipper, conspicuously married talk-show host KATHIE LEE GIFFORD winced last week as her battle with the Globe escalated into an ugly war of attrition. Kathie Lee vehemently denied the tabloid's cheesy allegations that her husband, football Hall of Famer FRANK GIFFORD, had cheated on her, saying that next the tab would report on her alien baby fathered by co-host Regis Philbin. The tabloid responded by self-righteously publishing what its editors say is shots from a videotape of Frank Gifford's tryst with a 46-year-old consultant...
...become an Alfred Hitchcock crime scene, with two suspects arrested for murders so pointless that their inexplicability was virtually a cinematic device. The vacuum absorbed the attention not only of Sussex County's stunned residents but also of big-city papers and network television. thrill killer, screamed the tabloid New York Daily News over one suspect's photo. victims lured to a remote spot and slain, echoed a rare top-item crime story in the august New York Times...