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  • July 2008

    • Edwards 'Love Child' Story Shows Press Double Standard

      newser  |  Slate  |  Jul 24, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Edwards 'Love Child' Story Shows Press Double Standard

      The press jumped all over Larry Craig’s bathroom dalliance not because he was gay, it was claimed, but because he was a hypocrite with an anti-gay voting record. But no one is piling on John Edwards, whom the National Enquirer says it caught visiting his mistress and love child this week. Jack Shafer of Slate thinks the non-coverage reveals a double standard: Homo-hypocrisy is wrong, but hetero-hypocrisy is OK. More »

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      John Edwards  • sex scandal  • Larry Craig  • affair  • tabloids  • media criticism  • National Enquirer  • love child

    • Tabloid: We Caught Edwards Visiting Mistress, Love Child

      newser  |  National Enquirer  |  Jul 23, 08 12:39 PM CDT

      Tabloid: We Caught Edwards Visiting Mistress, Love Child

      The National Enquirer claims to have cornered and confronted John Edwards yesterday after a late-night tryst with the woman they have been saying for months is his mistress and the mother of his infant child. The tabloid says its reporters tracked Edwards as he entered a Los Angeles hotel through a side door and used a basement elevator; left the hotel and returned again with her; and left again at 2:40am. When confronted by Enquirer reporters, they say, he fled—and then hid in a bathroom and summoned security. More »

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      John Edwards  • scandals  • affair  • tabloids  • National Enquirer  • love child  • mistress

  • June 2008
  • April 2008

    • UCLA Worker Snooped in Farrah's Files

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 3, 08 3:00 AM CDT

      UCLA Worker Snooped in Farrah's Files

      A UCLA staffer sneaked peeks into actress Farrah Fawcett's confidential health records and apparently leaked information on her treatment for cancer to the media, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sensational headlines about Fawcett's illness subsequently turned up on the website of the National Enquirer before the star had a chance to tell her son that her cancer had returned. More »

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      cancer  • privacy  • hospitals  • tabloids  • medical records  • confidential information  • UCLA Medical Center  • Farrah Fawcett

  • March 2008

    • Boring Britney Bad for Business

      newser  |  Access Hollywood  |  Mar 22, 08 1:15 PM CDT

      Boring Britney Bad for Business

      Now that she's under dad's control, the world of Britney Spears seems to be a lot more stable these days—good news for those concerned about her well-being but not so good for the paparazzi. She's long been a cash cow for tabloids, but now photographers are getting tired of hanging around waiting for something, anything, to happen, Access Hollywood writes. More »

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      celebrity  • Britney Spears  • paparazzi  • tabloids  • Jamie Lynn Spears  • Jamie Spears  • photographers

    • Maddie Parents Win Apology— and $1.1M

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Mar 19, 08 10:16 AM CDT

      Maddie Parents Win Apology&mdash; and $1.1M

      Two downmarket British tabloids ran front-page apologies to the parents of Madeleine McCann today. The Daily Express and the Daily Star apologized for carrying articles that suggested that Kate and Gerry McCann killed their missing daughter in Portugal last year. The company that owns the two newspapers also paid the McCanns $1.1 million in damages, plus legal fees, a spokeswoman for the family said. More »

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      lawsuit  • Madeleine McCann  • Kate McCann  • Gerry McCann  • tabloids  • apology  • libel  • Maddy

    • Lisa Marie: I'm Not Fat, I'm Pregnant

      newser  |  OK!  |  Mar 8, 08 5:47 AM CST

      Lisa Marie: I'm Not Fat, I'm Pregnant

      Lisa Marie Presley is expecting her third child, OK! Magazine reports. Elvis' daughter said she was forced to make the announcement by the media's mockery of her expanding figure. "I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant," she wrote on her MySpace page. More »

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      celebrity  • MySpace  • pregnancy  • celebrity pregnancy  • tabloids  • Elvis Presley

  • February 2008

    • Will Smith Wins Libel Suit Over Hitler Slur

      newser  |  E! Online  |  Feb 22, 08 4:25 PM CST

      Will Smith Wins Libel Suit Over Hitler Slur

      A London news agency must pay undisclosed damages and apologize to Will Smith for publishing a story that erroneously quoted the actor as saying Adolf Hitler was a “good person.” E! Online reports that the World Entertainment News Network picked up and greatly distorted quotes from Smith’s interview with Scotland’s Daily Record to create its gossip piece, which received worldwide media attention. More »

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      Nazi  • Adolf Hitler  • tabloids  • Will Smith  • libel

    • LA Police Arrest 4 in Paparazzi Crackdown

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 21, 08 11:04 AM CST

      LA Police Arrest 4 in Paparazzi Crackdown

      Even Britney Spears’ paparazzi can’t stay out of trouble, the Los Angeles Times reports. Late Tuesday and early yesterday, Los Angeles police arrested four shutterbugs for blocking sidewalks in their hunt for tabloid-worthy shots—part of a crackdown, using existing loitering and traffic laws, on increasingly aggressive photographers. All four men face up to a year in prison and $1,000 in fines. More »

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      Los Angeles  • Britney Spears  • media  • paparazzi  • Lindsay Lohan  • gossip  • tabloids  • photographers  • TMZ  • Harvey Levin

  • January 2008

    • Britney's Antics Fuel Tabloid Economy

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 29, 08 11:57 AM CST

      Britney's Antics Fuel Tabloid Economy

      Whether she's flouncing out of a courthouse or wigging out on hospital staffers, pop star Britney Spears and her antics are creating their own celebrity media economy, the AP reports. For OK! magazine, the "Spears industry" helped double revenue in 2007 to $51 million. "We're on constant Britney alert," said an editor. More »

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      celebrity  • Britney Spears  • paparazzi  • tabloids

    • Bruni Greets Journo Topless

      newser  |  Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jan 25, 08 10:02 AM CST

      Bruni Greets Journo Topless

      Carla Bruni may have the press corps covering her fiancé—French President Nicolas Sarkozy—atwitter, but it can’t be said that the model keeps cards too close to her chest, reports the Daily Mail' s Simon Mills, whom Bruni recently greeted with these fittingly plain words: “Sorry for being topless.” The effect on the following interview, Mills writes, was “pure conversational Viagra.” More »

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      Nicolas Sarkozy  • Carla Bruni  • tabloids  • nudity  • Mick Jagger

    • Winehouse Go, Go, Goes to Rehab

      newser  |  E! Online  |  Jan 24, 08 5:33 PM CST

      Winehouse Go, Go, Goes to Rehab

      Though her hit song may deny it, Amy Winehouse is going to rehab, E! reports. The Grammy-nominated singer today checked herself into an undisclosed drug-treatment facility a day after police began investigating a video in which she inhales from a smoking glass pipe. No word yet whether Winehouse, 24, will still perform at the Grammys in Los Angeles next month. More »

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      celebrity  • Amy Winehouse  • rehab  • tabloids  • drug addiction  • Grammy Awards

  • December 2007

    • Winehouse's Mom Pleads: Please Come Home, Amy!

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Dec 10, 07 3:04 AM CST

      Winehouse's Mom Pleads: Please Come Home, Amy!

      Troubled singer Amy Winehouse's mother has written an open letter to her hot mess of a daughter begging her to come home and get well. The letter, which appears in the London tabloid News of the World , was written shortly after Winehouse was photographed recently wandering the streets before dawn in jeans and a bra, mumbling incoherently. More »

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      London  • Amy Winehouse  • tabloids  • drug addiction  • mothers  • letters  • singers

  • October 2007

    • 'Gripping' Album Tops Doherty Tabloid Drama

      newser  |  Uncut  |  Oct 24, 07 4:11 PM CDT

      'Gripping' Album Tops Doherty Tabloid Drama

      Kate Moss' ex, Pete Doherty, may have a rep as a “tawdry drug monster,” but detractors' opinions are sullying his band's great music, says Uncut , giving 5 of 5 stars to Babyshambles’ new release, Shotter’s Nation . The band's previous effort succeeded on “flinty spectrality,” but this one wins by sobering up: Babyshambles is “frighteningly functional” as Doherty goes to war against mediocrity. More »

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      music  • music review  • tabloids  • Kate Moss  • Pete Doherty  • Babyshambles

  • August 2007

    • Scribe Says Bye to Cool Tabloid

      newser  |  Salon  |  Aug 25, 07 5:13 PM CDT

      Scribe Says Bye to Cool Tabloid

      Gone is the tabloid that claimed "February Sues for More Days" and "Hide-and-Seek Player Found After 34 Years," but what becomes of its writers? At least one is still missing his calling as an inventor of comedy-news. In Salon , Stan Sinberg recalls how he conceived tall tales for the Weekly World News for 3 years, a calling he considered higher than writing for the Enquirer or penning celebrity gossip. More »

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      newspaper  • news  • tabloids  • writer  • Weekly World News

    • Britney's Lawyer Wants a Divorce

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Aug 18, 07 3:48 PM CDT

      Britney's Lawyer Wants a Divorce

      Britney's hot-shot divorce lawyer is on the verge of jumping ship, the New York Daily News reports.  Laura Wasser seems to think Britney's become bad business; she referred the pop star to other legal talent for continuing help with her her messy custody battle over her two sons with Kevin Federline. More »

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      celebrity  • Britney Spears  • divorce  • Angelina Jolie  • Kevin Federline  • tabloids  • custody

    • Alert the Aliens: Weekly World News Dead at 28

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Aug 7, 07 4:57 PM CDT

      Alert the Aliens: Weekly World News Dead at 28

      For 28 years, it was the “world’s most reliable newspaper,” replete with stories of Elvis sightings, alien babies, and dwarf-eating dieters. But the Weekly World News is no more. The black-and-white publication, known for its loose headlines and even looser facts, will publish its final print edition later this month, parent company American Media says. More »

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      media  • newspaper  • tabloids  • National Enquirer  • American media  • fake news  • UFO sightings  • print industry  • Weekly World News

  • May 2007

    • Tabloid Paid BP Chief's Gay Lover

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  May 3, 07 9:02 AM CDT

      Tabloid Paid BP Chief's Gay Lover

      There is growing sympathy in London's financial community for Lord Browne, the CEO of energy giant BP who resigned Monday after being caught lying to a court about how he met his gay lover. The Guardian reports that the British tabloid, Mail on Sunday , paid Browne's lover Jeff Chevalier, about $80,000 for details about their relationship. More »

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      gay rights  • trial  • homosexuality  • court  • tabloids  • BP  • Lord Browne

  • April 2007

    • Queen Behind Royal Split

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 16, 07 11:25 AM CDT

      Queen Behind Royal Split

      Royal watchers were rewarded today with a report in the News of the World   that  Queen Elizabeth was behind the sudden split between Prince William and his commoner girlfriend, Kate Middleton. The tab said Wills dumped Kate after a closed-door meeting with his grandmother, who said she didn't "want another Diana."  More »

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      British royals  • Prince William  • tabloids  • Kate Middleton  • Prince Philip  • Queen Elizabeth

    • Wills and Kate Have Split

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 14, 07 4:49 PM CDT

      Wills and Kate Have Split

      Prince William's four-year romance with shopgirl Kate Middleton is off, the Sun reported in a "world exclusive" today. Though palace-watchers had been betting on another fairytale wedding at St. Paul's, the couple has been growing apart since Wills started his military service, and seemed to prefer carousing with army buddies to  canoodling with Kate, the Sun reports. More »

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      Great Britain  • media  • British royals  • Prince William  • tabloids  • Kate Middleton

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