Tabloids

What Tabloids Get Right About Motherhood

Ilana Wiles | Posted 05.23.2012

Ilana Wiles

Welcome to motherhood, Jessica! You'll want to cry from happiness and tear your hair out with frustration on the very same day.

Organized Gossip

Gabriel Mizrahi | Posted 05.02.2012

Gabriel Mizrahi

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.

Psychic Pollution

Suza Scalora | Posted 05.02.2012

Suza Scalora

Our negative thoughts combine collectively, mixing with the negative messaging in the media to produce a murky ocean of grime that we are all unconsciously swimming in.

Reality Weekly, Reality TV-Focused Magazine, Prepares For Launch

wwd.com | Posted 02.29.2012

REALITY CHECK: Kim Kardashian and her friends in reality TV land now have their very own mother ship, in the form of a magazine where all their antics...

Police Estimate 800 Victims In Murdoch Phone Hacking Scandal

AP | By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Posted 12.10.2011

LONDON -- The total number of people whose phones were hacked by journalists at the News of the World tabloid is around 800, British police said Satur...

Media Intrusion: Tough Laws Needed, Not Press Controls

Dan Ehrlich | Posted 01.26.2012

Dan Ehrlich

The answer is not press controls, but stricter laws, both national and international, to police illegal activities from intrusive and threatening paparazzi to phone hackers working for the media.

Michael Calderone

AP Defends NYPD Spying Coverage Against Tabloid Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.23.2011

NEW YORK -- For several weeks, the Associated Press has reported extensively on the New York Police Department’s secret surveillance of Muslim neigh...

Celebrity Gossip Is Good for You

Anne Peterson | Posted 11.18.2011

Anne Peterson

Celebrity gossip is Aesop's Fables for adults: a based-on-a-true-story morality tale that teaches a life lesson.

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

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.11.2011

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann

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

How Not to Be a Phone Hacking Victim

Larry Magid | Posted 09.19.2011

Larry Magid

You don't have to be rich or famous to be a phone hacking victim. Unethical journalism aside, it can also happen to someone involved in a messy divorce, a civil suit or as corporate espionage. Here's what you can do about it.

Murdoch, Britain and the Tabloid Mentality

Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.18.2011

Robert Teitelman

Sure, pols cravenly kowtowed to the tabloid press, particularly the Murdoch papers. But what gave those papers such power? Well, vast numbers of Brits went out every day and picked up copies of The Sun or the Daily Mail or the Telegraph.

When the Empire Strikes, Will the People Strike Back?

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 09.17.2011

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann

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.

Errol Morris Digs The Dirt With Tabloid

Alex Simon | Posted 09.14.2011

Alex Simon

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.

A Murdoch Exclusive

Jonathan Schmock | Posted 09.14.2011

Jonathan Schmock

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They're Just Like Us

Elizabeth Nicholas | Posted 08.23.2011

Elizabeth Nicholas

Stars, politicians, fighting hard battles, they're just like us and the people we love, fighting hard battles too. They will do things we hope our children, our husbands, our parents, we ourselves, would never do.

New York Post Hiking Newstand Price

Adweek | April 22 2011 | Posted 08.22.2011

The New York Post is raising its newsstand price to 75 cents beginning Monday, according to sources at the newspaper. Editor-in-chief Col Allan did...

Public Exposure and Private Voyeurism: Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 08.20.2011

W. Hunter Roberts

Be honest: Don't you feel a little bit ashamed of yourself when you succumb to the media circus? Say what you will about the media; you and I are the ones consuming it.

Inside The Big-Money Tabloid Industry

New York Times | Posted 07.22.2011

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...

Star Magazine APOLOGIZES To Katie Holmes

AP | Posted 06.27.2011

LOS ANGELES — Katie Holmes has settled her lawsuit with the publishers of Star magazine over a cover story that insinuated she was a drug addict...

Consuming Britney: Oops We Did It Again

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 06.05.2011

Cathleen Falsani

Three years ago, the Associated Press had written Britney Spears' obituary. Just in case. Spears was 26 and seemingly mid-freefall in an epic tumb...

New law jails paparazzi - now what? (Part 2)

Robin Sax | Posted 05.25.2011

Robin Sax

By Robin Sax and Carmela Kelly Continued from yesterday (read Part 1) Can you imagine the out of control, desperate, illegal, reckless and dangerous...

New Law Jails Paparazzi -- Now What? (Part 1)

Robin Sax | Posted 05.25.2011

Robin Sax

By Robin Sax and Carmela Kelly The paparazzi have officially gone overboard. They are overzealous, over the top and will go to any lengths for a phot...

WikiLeaks, War Criminals and the Kardashians

Ann Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Ann Miller

Wouldn't it be nice if we were at least somewhat as obsessed with what was actually revealed by WikiLeaks as we seem to be about Julian Assange's thin-skinned condoms?

When Your Ex Marries the Next Girl (Sorry, Jessica Simpson!)

Jessica Massa | Posted 05.25.2011

Jessica Massa

Why does it sting so much when you find out that he's marrying someone else? And why is that painful feeling intensified when you realize that he's marrying the first girl he dated after you?

The 9 Most Ridiculous Tabloid Headlines (About Cats)

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011

Bat Boy, Big Foot, and aliens who worship Oprah are just a few of the hot topics commonly discussed in the trashy tabloids we've all grown to love. Ho...