Word: tabloidizing
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...referring to Her Royal Highness as "Squidgy" in a bugged phone conversation, the British royal family has again fallen victim to a wiretapping scandal. Last week, London's Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According to Scotland Yard, Goodman's nine alleged offenses include conspiracy to "intercept communications"; two other men were also arrested...
...deal, put up a few songs on MySpace and everyone has gotten all excited, I on the other hand am s______ myself." Her anxiety is understandable. "I'm being followed around now by paparazzi and stuff which is really weird," Allen told Time last week. Part of her tabloid appeal is her pedigree; Allen is the daughter of Oscar-nominated film producer Alison Owen and comic and actor Keith Allen, who split when Lily was a young child. She also has a history of saying outrageous things, like telling the Observer newspaper that she sold the illegal drug ecstasy...
...Dirt, an upcoming FX show, you play a tabloid editor. Is this revenge against the gossip industry? It was inspired by an actual incident. When I was pregnant, I was driving, and paparazzi were tailgating me. I foolishly tried to outrun them. I was hormonal. [It made me think] there has got to be something we can do on the paparazzi...
This is not bird flu or SARS or even the "flesh-eating bacteria" of tabloid fame. But it is every bit as dangerous, even if it goes by an uncommonly ungainly name: community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA...
...Photography (ICP) in New York City from June 9 to Aug. 27. The exhibit is drawn from the ICP's collection of 20,000 of his original prints from the 1930s to the 1950s, and will showcase over 100 of his rarely seen images, including his often gruesome tabloid-documentarist style: murder victims sprawled on boardwalks covered with bloody drop cloths; crime-scene chalk drawings on sidewalks of bodies since removed. One can easily imagine him driving around the dark streets of New York City of old, waiting for his self-installed police radio to propel him into action...