Word: tabloidizing
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...Star Tabloid" Award...
According to Star reporter Richard Gooding (a former metro editor for the New York Daily News and the New York Post), Rowlands first contacted the tabloid "out of the blue" in mid-July and told them she was a call girl who had been seeing Morris. Gooding was initially unimpressed, he recalls, telling her, "If it's simply a story of a presidential adviser hiring a call girl, it's probably not a story." After several more conversations in which she divulged more details and showed him her diaries, Gooding and his editors grew considerably more interested...
...Star sleuths spent five more days waiting, as Morris' work delayed a planned assignation with Rowlands; finally they met on the night of Aug. 22. While Morris was on the phone, Rowlands went onto the balcony. Morris soon followed, and the rest is tabloid history. "I didn't want her to do anything out of the ordinary," says Gooding, in response to charges of entrapment. "I didn't ask her to ask him any questions, to pump him or anything. But the only way that people would believe this story was to have pictures...
...midst of reporting on loftier matters like Clinton's acceptance speech. Still, it was a story no news outlet could ignore, one serious enough to bring down the President's chief strategist. As happened so often during the O.J. Simpson trial, the mainstream press had to acknowledge that the tabloids, and tabloid tactics, can sometimes unearth legitimate news. And the Star got another notch in its gun belt...
...evolution of the Kennedy myth after Dallas has set an American mood of moral disquiet and trompe l'oeil. Now you see it, now you don't. The shining story of Camelot has proceeded through the decades with an evil twin--the American tabloid version of the Kennedys, with Mafia molls and ruthless lusts and greeds: the gods as gangsters...