Word: tabloidizing
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Alter’s early stints with tabloid journalism helped propel him into the highest echelons of political journalism—covering the president and his sex scandals...
...goes in this movie: Pinocchio has a cross-dressing secret; Joan Rivers does inane fashion commentary on the red carpet leading to a palace shindig; a dash to rescue the Princess is interrupted by corrupt cops who plant an illegal drug--Yikes! It's catnip--on Puss while tabloid TV covers the bust. The most basic Shrek joke--satirized modernity intruding on fairy-tale romance--is played in 100 variants, some of which will sail over the heads of the littlest kids in the audience (there's plenty else to keep them giggling) but will be very gratefully received...
...Tabloid Tumble Piers Morgan, the flamboyant editor of the U.K.'s Daily Mirror, has survived many a scrape during his tabloid career, but the photographs he published two weeks ago purporting to show British soldiers brutally mistreating an Iraqi prisoner in the back of a truck proved Morgan's undoing. Last week the Mirror's publisher conceded the pictures were fake (the paper claims to have been the victim of a hoax), apologized unreservedly to readers and the military, and fired the editor. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told Parliament the pictures were "categorically not taken in Iraq"; the military...
...little too much of local flavor, the couple wakes up in bed together sporting makeshift wedding rings and the totally improbable belief that whatever they did to get those wedding rings is somehow legally binding. When they return to New York and the prying eyes of the New York tabloid press, they fake being married lest their careers suffer. They fake it til they make it, of course, though they’re basically faking it all along...
...Friday night, local boy and Hollywood heartthrob Ben Affleck came home to Cambridge to nurse his wounded heart after his tabloid-fodder breakup with a certain diva. Apparently, there were several female Harvard undergraduates at Brother Jimmy’s who have degrees in nursing the hearts of jilted big-screen heroes, and accepted their payments in the form of drinks and flirtation. The only problem? At the end of the night, Affleck found himself a little strapped for cash, and had to dash to the nearest Fleet. Fortunately, he didn’t have to go hunting for Good...