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 License to kill?: Columnists: Lizette Rabe: News24
Although the tabloids are part of media conglomerates, which pride themselves with elaborate codes of conduct, the tabloids do not comply with the codes of their own groups.
Tabloids, in fact, can carry on with their destruction of what is socially and morally acceptable within our constitutional democracy.
While the tabloids are outperforming their business plans, the humanitarian dignity of those whose money is good enough for them, must be acknowledged.
www.news24.com /News24/Columnists/Lizette_Rabe/0,,2-1630-1714_1685951,00.html   (722 words)

  
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The tabloid press was from the beginning criticized for sensationalism and emotionalism, for over-simplification of complex issues, for catering to the lowest common denominator and sometimes for outright lies.
Today, the word tabloidization, or tabloidism, are used in media criticism to (vaguely) describe the tendency for all journalism to become more like the journalism of the tabloid press (as in Franklin, 1997:7) - it is obvious that tabloid journalism no longer is confined to the tabloid press.
The penny press was more of an economic venture and less a political project that had been the case with most of the papers before that time "...with the penny press a newspaper sold a product to a general readership and sold the readership to advertisers" (Schudson, 1978:25).
www.nordicom.gu.se /eng_mr/iceland/papers/five/AMJonsson.doc   (8400 words)

  
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The establishment of the Press Complaints Commission failed to prevent the death of the Princess of Wales, and as this occurred outside the UK, the activities of the so-called ‘Paparazzi’ were beyond its reach.
Diana used the Press to her own advantage, and her death was (as far as we can tell), a consequence of her personal lifestyle and a drunken chauffer.
The Government’s continues to warn the Press, and every year brings more demands to impose fines on newspapers, but everyone is aware that any laws which could curb the excesses of the tabloids might also be used to curb serious reporting in the quality or alternative press and in the broadcast media.
www.northallertoncoll.org.uk /media/freedomresponse.doc   (1330 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: International Special Report: Princess Diana, 1961-1997
LONDON, Sept. 1—Britain's raucous tabloid newspapers were uncharacteristically quiet today, as reports that pursuing photographers might have contributed to Princess Diana's death led to talk of tough new privacy laws, curbs on electronic eavesdropping and other strictures on the press.
It was the tabloids that broke the story of her disillusionment with her marriage, the story of her intercepted phone conversation with a close male friend and finally the story of her new relationship.
Bild, Germany's largest-selling tabloid, published a photograph on its front page today of emergency workers trying to free Princess Diana from the wreckage of the Mercedes in which she was fatally injured.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diana/stories/tabloids0902.htm   (1162 words)

  
  The Free Press, Tabloid Journalism, and Spin
Almost every press has degrees of freedom and degrees of control, even if that control is just "public opinion" and how journalists and the owners of media select the news.
To quote from Tabloid America: Myth-Making, Mythology and Sensationalism by Douglas Herman: Said noted gadfly Gore Vidal, "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world.
We would suggest that there is no such thing as a "free press," that there are probably degrees of freedom, but that the "free press" is probably as much mythology as the other freedoms.
www.quazen.com /News/The-Free-Press,-Tabloid-Journalism,-and-Spin.8889   (694 words)

  
  Tabloid
A tabloid is both a paper size and a term for the style of the newspapers that — especially in the United Kingdom — tend to use that format.
Tabloid is the smaller of the two standard newspaper sizes; the larger newspapers are called broadsheets.
Tabloids tend to emphasise sensational stories and are reportedly prone to create their news if they feel that the subjects cannot, or will not, sue for libel.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tabloid.html   (300 words)

  
 Tabloid Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tabloids were originally pint-sized newspapers specializing in the sensational.
A tabloid is a newspaper format particularly popular in the United Kingdom.
A tabloid format newspaper is roughly 23½ by 14 3/4 inches (597 mm × 375mm) per spread.
www.bookrags.com /Tabloid   (197 words)

  
 Dying by the media
Increasingly, the news agenda for the 'quality' broadsheets as well as for the BBC is being set by the tabloids, which have become the arbiters of Britain's omnivorous celebrity culture, a culture in which all that counts is name and face recognition, not talent or achievement.
Her battles with the tabloid press gained her much popular sympathy and contributed to her carefully cultivated image of a wronged and vulnerable woman.
Diana's battles with the tabloid press gained her much popular sympathy, and contributed to her carefully cultivated image of a wronged and vulnerable woman.
www.flonnet.com /fl1418/14180140.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Tabloid papers in The AnswerBank: News
Tabloid press created modern society - a society that has no clue as to what is really happening in the modern world.
The tabloid press panders to those who are ill-informed (not necessarily uneducated) and, as a result paranoid, and seems to tell them what they want to hear; that the world is a bad place and on every street there lives a paedophile, terrorist, illegal immigrant or benefit fraudster.
Tabloids are really obviously known for fabricating stories and sensationalising everything possible but people still lap it up and believe it.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk /News/Question137797.html   (1818 words)

  
 Dean's Statement: New York Law School Responds to Inquiries Regarding the Edward Samuels Matter
Because the plaintiffs chosen to play their case to the press, however, I feel it is necessary to correct their false statements.
Press reports of thousands of images on Professor Samuels' computer give the impression that they were discovered at the law school.
Tabloid journalists demonstrated complete disregard for the presumption of innocence-a fundamental concept of fairness built into the American criminal justice system-by wrongly suggesting that the school had an option other than to continue to carry him on its payroll.
www.nyls.edu /pages/1363.asp   (1267 words)

  
 Did Bonnie Fuller really betray women? - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Back in 1991, it was the Globe that broke with the journalistic tradition of protecting the identity of possible rape victims and revealed the name of the woman accusing Kennedy scion William Kennedy Smith of raping her.
The other reason, though, is because the influence of the tabloid press has undeniably increased in recent years.
For many people, the line between the tabloid press and the legitimate press is already indistinguishable, said Geneva Overholser, a professor of journalism at the Washington bureau of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the former ombudsman of the Washington Post.
dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2003/10/31/kobe/print.html   (1061 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Lowering the Bar? -- February 3, 1999
The tabloids have even complained that some of the mainstream news organizations have used terms that they in their respectability wouldn't dare use.
We had the press that was in collusion with him to leak and leak and leak and leak and carry water again and again.
I mean, people are very interested in hypocrisy, and they are tired of politicians who stand there and wag their fingers and preach and don't practice.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june99/tabloid_2-3.html   (1722 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Front Page | 'Save the press'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There are also many other problems facing the Egyptian press and press institutions, the most serious being the rise of tabloids and other crude forms of journalism." (see: p.10).
"The tabloid press has mushroomed in recent years, to the extent that the norms governing the journalistic profession are almost forgotten," said Makram Mohamed Ahmed, board chairman of Dar El-Hilal Organisation and chief editor of the weekly Al-Mussawar.
For its part the Press Syndicate has cancelled Mahran's membership -- not for the latest offences but for being a shareholder and chief editor at the same time, which is a violation of Syndicate regulations.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/540/fr2.htm   (892 words)

  
 Telegraph Blogs: Foreign: David Rennie: September 2006: Tabloid truths   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The tabloid press has for decades made the UK look bad, but the xenophobia is only one problem.
The tabloids also make Britons out to be bigoted, narrow-minded idiots whose only interests are looking at sleazy-looking naked bimbos, whining about whatever "horror" is being screamed about in the press (and 99% of the time it isn't even a horror), or putting down others because of their age, race, sex, sexual orientation, or appearance.
The UK press and Murdoch are an interesting animal -- while the French newspapers are increasingly vanity vehicles for rich members of the establishment, the British press exists almost entirely to make a profit (under Conrad Black and the Telegraph Group must be recognised to be a bizarre hybrid).
blogs.telegraph.co.uk /foreign/davidrennie/sept06/tabloid.htm   (1818 words)

  
 IFEX ::
RSF also reminded the tabloid press of the need to respect a professional code of ethics.
She was escorted to prison after the hearing by about 30 police officers, who prevented the press from interviewing or photographing her.
In July 2002, the editor-in-chief of the daily "Ug", a tabloid run by the Mongolian Democratic Party, was sentenced to six months in prison after refusing to reveal her sources in connection with an article wrongly accusing a young woman of spreading the AIDS virus (see IFEX alert of 2 August 2002).
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/58703   (384 words)

  
 German Media Landscape   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On first view, the German press appears to be highly diversified and local, but in fact much of the contents of the newspaper is produced by central offices.
The tabloid press in Germany is often referred to as ‘boulevard press’.
In 1956 the German Press Council (Deutscher Presserat) was established, consisting of an equal number of representatives from the journalists organisations and the publisher organisations (20 in total).
www.ejc.nl /jr/emland/germany.html   (2469 words)

  
 Take One Glamour Girl, Add An Oxford College, And Stir Into A Tabloid Frenzy. - Features - The Oxford Student - ...
More suited to the sedate pages of academic journals than the frenzied attention of the tabloid press, the college occupied the thoughts of sex-hungry Daily Star readers nationwide when it became embroiled in a bizarre row over whether a glamour model should be allowed to come and pull pints in the student bar.
News that the tabloid pin-up – who is so popular that there is allegedly a religion called ‘Pinderism’ devoted to her – would not be welcomed into the bosom of Lincoln bar inevitably went down badly with students.
Press attention on the university shows no sign of abating, and with journalists refusing to be shaken from their conviction that we are a unique species among British students, anybody from Oxford who momentarily forgets that they are a national treasure and slips down the pub like any normal student only has themselves to blame.
www.oxfordstudent.com /tt2005wk0/Features/take_one_glamour_girl,_add_an_oxford_college,_and_stir_into_a_tabloid_frenzy.   (1506 words)

  
 Tablodization and the Media, Vol. 5 - 1998, No. 3
The development of sensational press was influenced by changing market conditions in post-communist media, particularly the saturation and shrinking of the press market, the expanding but increasingly competitive advertising sector and the limited potential for considerable financial gains in the national dailies market.
This is partly due to the fact that many press titles of the communist era managed to transform and rejuvenate themselves into market-type quality papers benefiting that they were already familiar to readers.
It is a case study of competition between the Daily Mirror and Sun in the period 1968-1992 and the impact this had on the decline in reporting matters of the public sphere in favour of publishing material encouraging acts of consumption.
www.javnost-thepublic.org /issue/1998/3   (1620 words)

  
 POL 233 - LEARN - The University of Auckland Library
Tabloid newspapers seek to differentiate themselves from upmarket and elitist forms of news discourse by means of simple binary oppositions, as expressed in visually excessive page layouts and headline fonts.
Not all tabloid newspapers are politically regressive, and the peculiar circumstances of Britain on the eve of WW2 produced a radically populist paper which campaigned for social justice.
Apologists claim the tabloids provide an escape from political domination by recognising difference, but neither the valorisation of difference, nor the social fragmentation celebrated by postmodernists are necessarily liberating.
www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/pol/course-pages/politics233.htm   (2997 words)

  
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I suggest that the tabloid press is far more susceptible to writing news stories of a misleading nature than the broadsheet press, as the tabloid medium has a greater responsibility to entertain and impact its reader.
News editorial written by the tabloid press is expected to represent the world’s reality; instead I suggest that the tabloid press create within their pages a new reality, drawing upon unusual and dramatic situations to captivate its audience.
I suggest that the tabloid press utilise this concept in regard to the EU migrant and that in establishing them as ‘other’, permits blame to lie at their feet, and unite the readership of the paper.
ics.leeds.ac.uk /pg-study/mashow/files/Hannah_Robins-200288938.doc   (13049 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Newspaper Association | Press - quarterly tabloid
Press is the official trade publication of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.
For details on how to advertise in Press, download an advertising contract.
*The Keystone Press Awards 2006 winners tab was distributed as section two of the Spring 2006 edition of Press and was also given out at the 2006 Keystone Press Awards banquet.
www.pa-newspaper.org /web/2005/09/press.aspx   (74 words)

  
 UNHCR - Public Information
The UN Refugee agency (UNHCR) welcomed the publication today by the Press Complaints Commission of guidance on the reporting of asylum and refugee issues, but expressed its grave concern that the tabloid press will continue to publish inaccurate and misleading stories which are a danger to good community relations.
UNHCR believes that the publication of the PCC guidance will be a valuable step in reminding editors of their responsibility to report these stories accurately, however fears that the type of the reporting that has been seen in recent years, which has sought to create an atmosphere of fear and hostility, may continue.
Examples of such reporting include: the giving of undue prominence to outlandish and scaremongering claims from fringe groups and individuals; the portrayal of “asylum seekers” as hooded and masked young men seeking entry to the UK, whose actual status is unknown; and the unwarranted association of asylum seekers with issues such as crime and disease.
www.unhcr.org.uk /press/press_releases2003/pr23Oct03.htm   (292 words)

  
 Model friend could force William to quit university - smh.com.au
Pictures printed in a London tabloid newspaper last week showed the Prince walking with a female friend, accompanied by a story implying that the two were enjoying a close friendship.
The aides are extremely concerned that tabloid newspapers, which until recently have honoured a gentlemen's agreement to allow the Prince to study in peace, appear to be abandoning it.
St James's Palace sought advice from the Press Complaints Commission about the matter, claiming that while it did not breach the PCC code, it breached the "spirit of the agreement".
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/05/1049459860173.html   (655 words)

  
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