Tabloid Journalism

Organized Gossip

Gabriel Mizrahi | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: News of the World, Rupert Murdoch, Tabloids, National Enquirer, Tabloid Journalism, Murdoch Tabloids, Media News

Murdoch's name is now synonymous with a perversion of the journalistic ideal, an incarnation of the profession obsessed with information at any cost and unfettered by the constraints of law, propriety and a commitment to discovering the truth legitimately.

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For-Profit Criminal Prosecutions

Andrea Lyon | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Police, Crime, Public Defender, Prosecution, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Tabloid Journalism, Crime News

When there is publicity associated with a criminal prosecution, the ability for jurors, judges, and prosecutors and yes, sometimes even defense lawyers, to presume innocence becomes even more circumscribed.

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Dumping on The Obamas

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: The Obamas, Celebrity Gossip, Michelle Obama, President Obama, Tabloid Journalism, Jodi Kantor, Book the Obamas, The Obamas Book, Books News

The Obamas won't be the last book to corral a legion of unnamed alleged inside sources to spin their personal grudges and wounded slights into a juicy tangle of rumor, gossip, and exaggerations to sell a book.

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A Lesson In Tabloid Sleaze

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Newspapers, British Media, UK Media, UK Media Inquiry, Tabloid Journalism, Lord Leveson, Leveson Inquiry, Media News

LONDON — Hacking into celebrity phones was just the tip of the iceberg. Britain's media ethics inquiry, set up in response to illegal eavesdrop...

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Power to the People Works When People Claim the Power

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Future of Journalism, Journalists, Mainstream Media, Television, Social Media, Television Ratings, Rupert Murdoch, Cable Television, Murdoch, Media, Media Bias, Journalism, Tabloid Journalism, Legal, Commentary, Media News

Does the media have responsibilities? When people are in positions of power or influence over others, is there an inherent obligation to tell the truth?

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"Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption"

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Future of Journalism, Journalists, Print Journalism, News of the World Hacking Scandal, News of the World Phone Hacking, Tabloids, British Tabloids, Media, Press, Tabloid, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Social Media, Phone Hacking, Hacking Scandal, Ethics in Journalism, Ethics, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch Phone Hacking, Media Criticism, Murdoch, Phone Hacking Scandal, Hacking, Murdoch Phone Hacking, Tabloid Journalism, Media News

Do you really welcome and enjoy the emotional, metaphorical or actual wounding and bleeding of a fellow human as tabloids claim you do?

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The Tabloid Truth of Errol Morris: A Video Interview

Alex Pasternack | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Video, Directors, Documentary, Errol Morris, Tabloid, Film, Movies, Journalism, Errol Morris Tabloid, Tabloid Documentary, Tabloid Review, Tabloid Journalism, Culture News

There are plenty of things that make Tabloid newsworthy -- sex, Mormons, kidnapping, cloning -- but it was by total chance that Errol Morris' documentary opened in theaters just as the tabloid-worthy "British hacking scandal" was descending.

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When the Empire Strikes, Will the People Strike Back?

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Tabloids, Rupert Murdoch, Social Media, Murdoch, Media, Murdoch Scandal, Tabloid Journalism, Media News

Everybody senses that there is more at stake in the Murdoch affair than the management of newspapers and a "naughty" media-gone-wild. Everybody is right. It's our humanity that's at stake.

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Errol Morris Digs The Dirt With Tabloid

Alex Simon | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Tabloids, Mormons, Errol Morris, Documentary Film, Joyce McKinney, Film, Tabloid Journalism, Video, Culture News

Tabloid tells the true story of Joyce McKinney, a former small town beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose obsessive love for a Mormon missionary caused a tabloid scandal that took Britain by storm in late 1977 and '78.

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Inside The Big-Money Tabloid Industry

New York Times | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Arnold Schwarzenegger Love Child, Radaronline, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Lohan, Radar Magazine, Tmz, Arnold Schwarzenegger Maria Shriver, Tabloids, Arnold Schwarzenegger Separation, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tabloid Journalism, Media News

This is how it works in the new world of round-the-clock gossip, where even a B-list celebrity’s tangle with the law can be spun into easy money, fe...

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PBS Frontline on Autism Resorts to Pseudo-Documentary, Tabloid Journalism

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Jenny McCarthy, Children, Pbs, Vaccination, Autism, Immunization, Vaccines, Toxins, Tabloid Journalism, Health, Frontline Vaccines, Healthy Living News

The latest Frontline made parents' decisions harder and did nothing except regurgitate old news about vaccines and autism. Parents and children deserve far better from PBS.

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Can Journalism Learn From The Tabloids?

Poynter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Sun, Tabloid Violence, Mass Media, Newspapers, Journalism Audience, Weekly World News, National Examiner, Tabloids, Supermarket Tabloid, Tiger Woods Scandal, Globe, The Star, National Enquirer, Journalism, Generoso Pope Jr., Tabloid Journalism, Media News

It is easy to dismiss the tabloid brand of journalism as a lot of headlines and no important news, yet the Enquirer reporters scored when they trapped...

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Digging Out of the '00ze

Eric Lurio | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Time, Decades, Recession, Global Warming, Culture, 1960s, Bush Administration, The Kennedy Administration, George W. Bush, 9/11, Roaring 20s, The '00ze, Stuck in the '00ze, 1950s, Tabloid Journalism, Healthy Living News

Names are important. Generally the naming of decades is a no brainer. The question is what to call the decade whose final year is about to begin.

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McCain Talks Experience -- Er, Sarah? With a John Edwards Moment in Tow?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vett, Alaska Grover Cleveland, Alleged Affair, National Enquirer, Sarah Palin, Polygraphs, Tabloid, Scandal, Vet, John McCain, Vetting, Tabloid Journalism, Politics News

By Stephen C. Rose WHOOPS: PALIN AFFAIR ALLEGED SOURCE OK, I need to explain why I am posting this. This story will either be a major game changer ...

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Beyond the Pale - A Spineless Media Lets McCain Call the Shots on Questions of Sarah Palin's Qualifications

Mario Almonte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Vice President Sarah Palin, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Mccain's Vice President Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Sarah Palin, George Bush, Presidential Candidate John Mccain, Tabloid Journalism, Politics News

Presidential candidate John McCain's refusal to give free and immediate media access to VP nominee Sarah Palin - his decision to present her only unde...

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