Word: tabloidizing
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...gumption to do a TV movie that explores the issue of media violence. The plot concerns a pay-per-view TV network of the future that, in its desperation for viewers, decides to televise the execution of a convicted killer. The drama is a fierce indictment of TV's tabloid excesses and features as cynical a portrait of unscrupulous television executives as any movie since Network...
...been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman show resembles noting so much as Eva Peron's triumphant world tour reprised for the postmodern landscape of tabloid...
...agreement capped five months of tawdry wrangling in what now seems like the all-tabloid media. Maids and chauffeurs, lissome lads and their parents fed their accusations of misconduct or declarations of support to the avid press. Tracking the story was a full-time job for many newshounds -- 250 littered the lawn of the Superior Court building in Santa Monica last week to hear the announcement of the epochal compromise -- and for the two squads of lawyers. The main attorneys got high marks for their work. "Feldman publicized, publicized, publicized, and then got the big settlement," says New York City...
...singer's financial records, almost certainly so that he could attach to them -- for all the media to see -- a transcript of ; the boy's deposition, which contained a gruesome list of Jackson's alleged pedophiliac predations. "The media ran with it," says Malcolm Boyes, producer of the tabloid TV show Inside Edition, "and it helped Feldman push the settlement...
They'd better. The show, Weekly World News (based on the supermarket tabloid of the same name), teeters precariously between sensationalism and spoof. It is one of those high-concept, high-wire acts that Tartikoff was known for at NBC, like the "MTV Cops" that eventually became Miami Vice (big hit), or the crime fighter who could transform himself into a jungle beast in Manimal (big bomb). Weekly World News, a proposed series for CBS that will air for two episodes this spring, is as good a show as any to serve notice to the TV world that Brandon Tartikoff...