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...devotes his talents to solving the row between director Woody Allen and actor Mia Farrow, Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz once again finds himself in the thick of a New York tabloid frenzy...
...always been a poor state, or go after my record on the issues, but they believe that the press is giving them leave to go beyond what has ever been considered the acceptable bounds of political-campaign discourse. They basically believe there is no difference now in tabloid journalism and legitimate journalism, and the whole thing is in free fall, and they're going to take advantage of it. I believe the best way for me to demonstrate my character is to make sure people know the whole story of my life and my work and my family and what...
Since then, Robb has taken up where Duke left off, using modern marketing methods to enhance the Klan's image. The Klan sells itself on tabloid TV and on business cards emblazoned with three large red Ks. There is even something for Klan kids: balloons depicting a hooded night rider on horseback. "We're selling white pride, white power, whatever," Robb says. "It doesn't make any difference if you're selling the Klan or used cars or toothbrushes...
...Tabloid TV programs have been bawdier -- and scrappier. After A Current Affair ballyhooed upcoming videotape of a call girl plying her trade with a bare-bottomed customer, said to be Fisher and a john, the competing Hard Copy aired a smidgen of the scene half an hour sooner, allegedly swiping it off a satellite feed. This prompted a lively melee over journalistic ethics in two corners not normally thought to possess many...
...irony for Amy Fisher's schoolmates and neighbors, as they feel themselves victims of media marauders, is that many have surely been avid consumers of the tabloid journalism they are now deploring. Then, of course, the subjects of the story were safely distant, and embarrassed friends and associates not even thought of. In those easier times, this sort of story seemed to them juicy. They are learning that the juices in such stories are most often squeezed out of other people's lives...