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...Tabloid journalism has played a major role in upending traditional news standards and dividing the audience. While upscale outlets like the New York Times and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer cover the budget battles in Washington and the strife in Bosnia, more mass-audience-friendly publications and TV shows dig for details on Liz Taylor's health and Princess Di's divorce. Each time these tabloid stories seep into the "serious" press, it sparks another round of hand-wringing debate over whether news is what people "want" or what they "need." Many editors were privately dismayed at the massive amount...
...with a robust, well-observed appreciation for the egotists who are drawn into the web of splashy criminal trials. Newcomer Wyler is a prosecutor turned defense attorney who lives in a world ethically messier than his predecessor's. Wyler's father took bribes, he himself cuts deals with smarmy tabloid reporters, and he is not above seeking the limelight. There is a becoming earthiness to Wyler that LaPaglia pulls off effortlessly...
...February their lovers' quarrel in Central Park was captured on an amateur's videotape, which tabloid TV shows replayed over and over again. Yelling, Bessette and Kennedy shoved each other, and he took a ring (possibly an engagement ring) from her finger. Before he stalked off, he also tried to grab the dog they owned together, but she screamed, "You've got my ring--you're not getting my dog!" What the TV clip usually did not include was the reconciliation, which occurred within minutes of the fight. The pair kissed and were seen together the next night...
Producers whose movies have been denounced as degenerate by Bob Dole move freely about, often on their way to Democratic fund raisers. So do publishers who increased their bids on Dick Morris' book after the Star recorded his unfortunate foot fault. So do newspaper barons whose tabloids milked the Morris case for thousands of headlines, none of which, I feel compelled to point out, matched the one a London tabloid used several years ago to announce the sacking of a British Cabinet minister who, it was revealed, had similar sexual tastes...
...theater is filled these days with graphic homosexual stories. Gay sex interweaves a certain risque prestige with the drama of its poignant risk. But public male heterosexuality, like water seeking its own level, has settled down in the tabloid bottomlands, where it does its best to provide low entertainment. So we have hilariously unwholesome scenes in which, for example, the chief political strategist to the President of the U.S. is described as barking around an expensive Washington hotel suite on all fours. Besides that arresting scene, the story offers continuing suspense: Will Rover's wife forgive him this untidiness...