Life in the Global Gutter; The Popular Press  

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Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8742 (Jul. 2011), page 59-60.
Topik: Journalism; Ethics; News Corporation; Headlines; Tabloid; Newspaper

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As an example of bullying journalism, it takes some beating. A tabloid buys a surreptitiously filmed sex-video of an actor in his 50s suffering from Parkinson's disease. It demands an exclusive. At first he collaborates, even writing the interview himself; later he sues for blackmail. This is not another story emanating from the now-shuttered newsroom of the News of the World, where journalistic shenanigans have deeply embarrassed News Corporation, its owner. The tabloid in question is Bild Zeitung, Germany's biggest paper. Last year a court ruled that Bild'sreporter had coerced the actor, Ottfried Fischer. In May a higher court overturned the verdict. A further appeal is pending. Mr Fischer's fate shows that Britain has no monopoly on aggressive tabloids--a word initially used for compressed tablets in the late 19th century, but which then came to mean "compact" journalism. They are ubiquitous in developed countries and many developing ones, particularly in Brazil, where they have grown rapidly in recent years. Britain, with half-a-dozen national tabloids, probably has the most. France boasts no tabloid newspapers, though it has magazines (Closer and Gala) and the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine that do a similar job (as far as that country's strict privacy laws allow). In America papers are mostly broadsheets, but tabloid-style television was invented there. Italy, Spain and Japan have tabloids focusing on sport with huge readerships: each copy goes through many hands.

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