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...find a Post Office Fruit Luncheonette with three men nursing coffees and egg salad sandwiches and a sign that says "Do Not Touch Magazines Unless Going to Buy" and the rack of aspirin bottles that have been sitting there collecting dust since the Reagan administration. On this Saturday, the tabloid in the window runs the cover story "Bill Clinton's Four-in-a-Bed Orgies with Black Hookers" and "'He's The Father of My Child,' Claims Ghetto Gal He Had Sex With Thirteen Times." It is primary season in New Hampshire with three days...
After the speech, the journalists joke with thepress secretary Lorraine Voles. Adam, USA Today'schief reporter covering the Democrats, didn't likeHarkin's potshots at Clinton and Kerrey: that "youwon't find my face on a tabloid, and you won'tfind me dating any Hollywood girlfriends." Adamsays, "Lorraine, why doesn't he add `Hey, I've gottwo legs and I've never had cancer!"' Voleslaughs, but at Harkin's next speech the lines willbe dropped...
...number of advice columns. "Dear Abby." "Dear Dotti." "Ann Landers." "Miss Manners." "Ask Beth." "Ask the Countess." These columns claim they confront the major and minor issues that plague the reading public. Advice has become a staple of the modern newspaper; the Boston Herald, after all, fills a whole tabloid page each day with lurid tales of cheating spouses, rude dinner guests and meddling mothers...
Both Clinton and his fellow Democrats steered clear of the two major controversies of Clinton's campaign, the alleged extramarital affair first reported by a supermarket tabloid last month and the more recent charge that, as a student, he may have tried to avoid being drafted to serve in Vietnam...
...producers of these shows deny any tilt toward tabloid subjects. "These are not sensational stories; these are stories in the headlines," says Victor Neufeld, executive producer of 20/20. Heyward admits there are some topics that the prime-time shows have a hard time doing. "But that's one reason the networks still need documentary units," he says. "There are some subjects that need to be done, damn the ratings, full speed ahead...