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Can Journalism Learn From The Tabloids?

Poynter | Posted 12.13.2009 | Media

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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Michael Jackson Lives On in This Is It

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tabloids, Michael Jackson, This Is It, Musical Influence, Autoposy Reports, Entertainment News

I am grateful that we have this documentary as the final legacy of one of the greatest entertainers of the century. With this film, it almost seems that Michael never left us.

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If Only This Is It Were It

Jon Chattman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tabloids, This Is It, Marketing, Michael Jackon, Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson Death, Farrah Fawcett, Mtv, MTV Video Music Awards, Patrick Swayze, Michael Jackson Hype, Michael Jackson Tour, Michael Jackson Movie, Entertainment News

Next month the much-hyped This Is It will hit theaters, and I have no doubt that it'll be a smash success, and more importantly, a fitting final chapter in Jackson's roller coaster legacy.

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Us Weekly's Freaking Out That Jon & Kate Are Yesterday's News

Disgrasian | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Schadenfreude, Reality Television, Reality TV, Us Weekly, TV Ratings, Divorce, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, Celebrity Culture, Jon and Kate Ratings, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Tabloids, Jon and Kate Divorce, Jon and Kate, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Media News

Us Weekly has profited enormously from the Gosselins' marriage failing -- producing six consecutive covers this summer featuring either Jon or Kate -- and they're not quite done feasting off that carcass' bones.

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The CIA and Murdoch Will Get Away With It

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Tabloids, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Cia, Leon Panetta, Investigation, Celebrities, Media News

The CIA and the Murdoch organization are protected by their own consistently bad behavior and negative image.

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Harlem Memorializes Michael Jackson at Apollo Theater

Lauri Lyons | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Michael Jackson, We Are the World, Al Sharpton, Baptize, Dr. 90210, Off the Wall, Mourners, African-Americans, Janet Jackson, Usher, Race, Bleach, Britain, President, Prescriptions, Joe Jackson, England, 125th Street, Tanning Salon, Thriller, Army, B.E. T, Collagen, Transformer, American Idol, Pharmaceuticals, Hallelujah, Bad, Heaven, The Wiz, California, Hate, Guilt, Tunisia, Broadway, Surrealism, Suntan, Los Angeles, The Staples Center, Barack Obama, Sunbathing, Elvis Presley, Las Vegas, Anti-Depressants, Gender, Skin, Dancing, Pharmaceutical Companies, 50, Art, John Lennon, Bible, Motown 25, The Beatles, Genetics, Singing, Paul Mc Cartney, Justin Timberlake, Jackson 5, Rain, Apollo Theater, LaToya Jackson, Australia, Cartoons, Britney Spears, Prescription Drugs, Reality Shows, Jamie Foxx, Black Fedora, Spike Lee, Drugs, King of Pop, Musicals, Jacksons, Tummy Tuck, Child Molestation, Fans, Russia, Americans, Cosmetic Surgery, Performers, Gary, Encino, Mtv, Quincy Jones, Amateur Night, Mardi Gras, Tabloids, Associated Press, Suicide, Trials, Music Videos, Billie Jean, Moonwalk, Hollywood, Tanning Booth, Nose Job, Berry Gordy, Dermatologist, Plastic Surgery, Diana Ross, Impersonators, Beat It, Moscow, Jordan Chandler, Chris Brown, Suntan Lotion, Katherine Jackson, Memorial, Botox, Indiana, Mowtown, Rx, New York, Paris Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, Deborah Rowe, Aeg Live, Martin Bashir, Brooke Sheilds, Lauri Lyons, White-Glove, Judith Hill, Marlon Jackson, Manhattan, Cnn, Jermaine Jackson, Youtube, New Orleans, New York News

The Apollo Theater's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson might as well have been Mardi Gras in Harlem.

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This Isn't About Michael Jackson

Jane Devin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tabloids, Michael Jackson, Fame, Sexual Molestation, Child Abuse, Poverty, Wealth, Culture, Entertainment News

Why do we so often scramble to make excuses for the bad acts of celebrities when we wouldn't do the same for our neighbors?

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Jackson's Death Means We're All Older Now and Need to Sober Up

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drug Addiction, John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, The Moonwalk, I'll Be There, Charlies Angel's, Prescription Drugs, 1980's, Farrah Fawcett, Heroine, Charlies Angels, 1970's, Janis Joplin, ABC, "Thriller, Ed McMahon, Ratings, Fred Astaire, The Burning Bed, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Camero, The Partridge Family, Baby Boomers, Wacko Jacko, Thriller, Tabloids, American Bandstand, Martin Luther King Jr., Fat Albert, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Rock With You, Robert F. Kennedy, Celebrity Worship, Soul Train, Cnn, Sideshow, Jimi Hendrix, Cocaine, Living News

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett has hit us near-baby boomers and full-on baby boomers with a rock and roll punch to the gut we weren't ready for.

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Jon and Kate: Why Do We Relate?

Lorraine Roe | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Mom, Therapy, Kids, Self-Care, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Jon and Kate Affair, Kate Gosselin, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Tabloids, Jon and Kate, Affairs, Self-Help, Living News

I've watched one of the twins leave her lunch box at home. I've watched an uncomfortable one-on-one play date with a horse. I've watched Kate speak lovingly to her husband. ... Oops, scratch that last one.

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Jon and Kate Ruined by the Realities of Fame?

Sheila Marikar | Posted 06.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Marriage, Reality TV, Relationships, Divorce, Jon Gosselin, Celebrity Gossip, Reality Show, Kate Gosselin, Tabloids, Entertainment News, Parenting, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Entertainment News

While the premiere's focus was the sextuplets' fifth birthday party, it seemed a footnote compared to Jon and Kate's testimonials about their alleged infidelities.

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Well, It's Not Rubina Ali's Fault...

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rubina Ali Rafiq Qureshi, News of the World, Tabloids, Sell Daughter, Rafiq Qureshi, Slumdog Millionaire, Rubina Ali, Dubai, Adoption, Entertainment News

We feel deeply for poor Rubina, who really just can't seem to catch a break. And to anyone who's thinking about buying a kid, we suggest following PETA's advice: "Always Adopt. Never Buy."

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Why Foxy Knoxy Gets No Respect

Michael Wolff | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Tabloids, Amanda Knox, Media, U.S. Media, British Media, Media News

Has the US media found itself a new sense of propriety and moral center, or is it just out of it? Too depressed about its future and uncertain of its function to follow even the scent of blood and sex?

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Will The Real John Edwards Sit Down?

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Tabloids, Extramarital Affair, Trendspotting, Elizabeth Edwards, Personal Life Edwards, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, John Edwards Affair, Cheaters, Adultery, Rielle Hunter, Adulterer, Politics News

In the end Edwards, like Spitzer before him, will fade into the Gary Hart night. What will we be left with but more tawdry feelings about a couple we admired. There's nothing good in it. Let's stop gossiping.

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$11 Million Twins: Brangelina Is in the Business of Making Us Look

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie Pregnant, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Brangelina Twins, Tabloids, Angelina Jolie, People Magazine, Celebrity Magazines, Brangelina, Angelina Jolie Twins, Celebrities, Brangelina Twins Pictures, Fertility, Celebrity Kids, Entertainment News

Why do readers want to see the genetic spawn of people who memorize other people's words for a living?

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Girls Hating Girls

Vanessa Richmond | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears, Amy Winehouse Drugs, Janice Min, Bad Girls, Tabloids, Heath Ledger, Heath Ledger Death, Feminism, Amy Winehouse, Us Weekly, Celebrities, Media News

While a story about a drug-addicted man is likely to focus on or even celebrate his expected return, coverage of female celebs is more likely to focus on her (self-inflicted) demise and act as "cautionary tales."

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Lorena Bobbit On "The Early Show": 15 Years Later After The Penis (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Video, Early Show, 15 Years Later, Tabloids, CBS News, Where Are They Now, Castration, Lorena Bobbit, Entertainment News

Lorena Bobbitt, who cut off her ex-husband's penis in retaliation for her alleged rape, now advocates for battered women and has a new family. Julie C...

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Should The Tabloids Lay Off A Mentally Ill Celebrity?

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: LA Times, Asra Nomani, Britney Spears, Sick Britney, Sick Britney Spears, Magazines, Sick Spears, Jeff Bercovici, Us Weekly, Larry Hackett, People, Portfolio, Tabloids, Los Angeles Times, Britney, Spears, Sick, Media News

Writing in the Los Angeles Times last week, Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and People contributor, argued that the time has come f...

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