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Secrets of a Tabloid Reporter...My Twenty Years on the National Enquirer's Hollywood Beat

11 reviews
Barbara Sternig

Front Row Pub, 2002

A great gift for friends who read the tabloids
SECRETS OF A TABLOID REPORTER is a reader's first look at the secret world of the National Enquirer and the famous people it exposes. Author Barbara Sternig was a Senior Reporter for 20 years covering Hollywood for this tabloid. Before that, she was writer/producer/assistant to Gossip Columnist Rona Barrett and had Hollywood welcoming her most of the time. In this fast-moving nonfiction ...

Tabloid Justice: Criminal Justice in an Age of Media Frenzy

2 reviews
Richard L. Fox, Robert W. Van Sickel, ...

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007

An important and timely book.
Like most Americans, you and I have already devoted countless hours absorbing the latest reports about high-profile legal cases. A short list reminds us of the time we have spent: O. J., JonBenet, Rodney King, Lorena Bobitt, Monica Lewinsky, and the British nanny Louise Woodward. In the 1990s, these and other judicial soap operas have become a mainstay of mainstream television, newspapers, and ...

China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture

5 reviews
Jianying Zha

New Press, 1996

western influences on chinese pop culture
a really good read, short, but it gets a lot of information accross. really covers everything from soap operas to movies to mtv, it puts forth some very interesting views on subjects that most books on china do not even cover.

Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

2 reviews
Joshua Gamson

University Of Chicago Press, 1999

Engaging glimpse into the sordid world of TV talk.
As a gay man, Gamson provides an interesting perspective on LGBT issues and exposes many of the hypocritical and often contradictory themes recurrent to the shows. There are many entertaining episodes recounted, but the book is more of a unique blend of sociological and personal importance. The writing can be a bit dry at times, but it is an intertaining and thought-provoking book for gays and ...

Pocket Cruisers & Tabloid Yachts, Volume 1: Building Plans for Six Small Cruising Boats from the Boards of ...
Jay Benford

Tiller Publishing, 1996

A salty collection of complete building plans for six small cruising boats, including a fantail steam launch (17' or 25'), working tugboat (14' or 20'), supply boat (20'), cruiser (14' or 20'), long-distance-sailing cruiser (14'), or fantail catboat (20'). Among the most popular designs offered by Benford, special effort has been made to reproduce the plans to scale, so that the builder will be able to work easily from the prints in the book.

Tabloid Dreams: Stories

13 reviews
Robert Olen Butler

Holt Paperbacks, 1997

A strong book inspires strong opinions
I was surprised to read some other readers' negative reviews of this book, because I think it's one of the very best short fiction collections I have ever read. But there's no accounting for personal taste, I suppose. These stories are linked together by a common device --all are based on (real or imagined?) tabloid headlines. Some other readers have felt this is phony and contrived, but I ...

Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places, A Memoir

32 reviews
Bridget Harrison

Da Capo Press, 2007

Another NY Journo Hits a Home Run!
I am a NY media professional, so it was not surprising that when a slew of my NY Journalist friends or business acquaintances published books, I was eager to read one after another. Amazon is good for indulging that inner-book-worm...no sooner have you finished one book, but it's recomended another that seems right up your ally. I got into a great groove where I read books published by Deb ...

American Tabloid: A Novel

120 reviews
James Ellroy

Vintage, 2001

A secret history of the Kennedy assassination
"They were rogue cops and shakedown artists. They were wiretappers and soldiers of fortune and f****t lounge entertainers. Had one second of their lives deviated off course, American History would not exist as we know it. It's time to demythologize an era and build a new myth from the gutter to the stars. It's time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time. ...

The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer

1 review
Jack Vitek

University Press of Kentucky, 2008

The story behind a cultural icon
Jack Vitek has written a fascinating biography of the peculiar founder of The National Enquirer, Generoso Pope and, at the same time, a biography of the American icon that he spawned. Pope was the son of a powerful Italian-American who lived in New York. Pope senior was purported to be connected --- or as some people say --- associated with the Mafia. This connection would later provide seed ...

I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact

12 reviews
Bill Sloan

Prometheus Books, 2001

Most current, and comprehensive, history of tabloids
This extensively-researched history of American tabloids was released in 2001, the only post-1999 tabloid book so far. That's relevant, because since 1999 all major tabloids (Enquirer, Star, Globe, Examiner, Mira, Sun, Weekly World News) have been under single ownership. Some tabloid critics lament that this has undermined the tabloids' traditional competitiveness, and significantly altered ...

Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at the Supermarket Tabloids

3 reviews
Jim Hogshire

Feral House, 1997

CIA MKULTRA mind control of supermarket shoppers
This excellent book reveals the top secret that US government's Central Intelligence Agency founded and owned the National Enquirer magazine. OSS/CIA agent Alexander Pope eventually sold "his" tabloid empire for $300-million. The propaganda value of tabs is unmatched, where mind control diverts every person who fails to avert their eyes at supermarket checkouts. Purchasing the rag is not ...

The Tabloid Bible

3 reviews
Nick Page

Westminster John Knox Press, 1998

Attacks tabloid folly without demeaning the source material.
I read the original British version of this while preparing to interview Nick Page for "The Door," a religious satire magazine. This is a wonderful, funny book -- but Page is careful to make fun of tabloid attitudes and stupidity, not the Bible stories themselves. Not to be missed.

Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television (Console-ing ...

1 review
Kevin Glynn

Duke University Press, 2000

A Very Illuminating Examination of What Others Fear To Touch
Please do not listen to the other review of this book: it is clearly written by someone who hasn't read Glynn's carefully argued, very interesting examination of "trash" television. "John Q. Public," as he calls himself in the review, seems to make it sound so simple -- networks play things because they get ratings. But what Glynn answers in a way that all of John Q's love for PBS can't is WHY ...

From Tabloid To Truth

1 review
Dan Wooding

Theatron Books, 2004

Inspiring book
This is the life story of Dan Wooding a Christian journalist from the UK now living in California. The reason I liked it was because he had a rough start, but was able to overcome obstacles because of his faith, and has become very well-known. The author worked with Brother Andrew in smuggling Bibles, was in prison in Nigeria, reported on the Uganda holocaust, was in the midst of the trouble in ...

Tabloid Game (Amazing Engine System, No 2710)

2 reviews
David "Zeb" Cook

Wizards of the Coast, 1994

Watch out... I think Bigfoot just got mugged by Elvis...
This game is an interesting combination of traditional Role Playing and humor games. The premise, that all tabloid stories are real and you are a reporter, is interesting. It leaves the world open to endless possiblities. Want an outer space adventure? Just send your reporters to NASA! Want to see a 50 foot tall toad rampaging through downtown Peoria? Make it happen! The skill generation system ...

Tabloid Prodigy: Dishing the Dirt, Getting the Gossip, and Selling My Soul in the Cutthroat World of ...

8 reviews
Marlise Elizabeth Kast

Running Press, 2007

Fantastic Read!
Many people are attracted to this book because of the celebrity factor. I was drawn to this book to read about the inner struggles of a young woman trying to to identify who she was between her conservative upbringing and the allure of Hollywood. Anyone who has walked the road of trying to figure themselves out can identify with the author. I will admit learning about the tactics tabloid ...

Tabloid Dreams
Robert Olen Butler

Minerva, 1997

Tabloid Nation: From the Birth of The Mirror to the Death of the Tabloid
Chris Horrie

Andre Deutsch, 2003

This is a fascinating glimpse into the often farcical, inner workings of a best-selling tabloid newspaper, and is a must-read for anyone interested in British social history and the media. As it celebrates its centenary, Chris Horrie casts an eye over the Daily Mirror's eventful history, from its first incarnation as a "newspaper for ladies" to the 1960s when it was riding high as the Beatles of the media world: anti-establishment, irreverant, ...

Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent: And Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer

5 reviews
Tom D'Antoni

Villard, 2005

What took so long for someone to write this book?
Supermarket tabloid covers fall into two types -- (1) the ones with stories about people you see on television and in the movies, and (2) the covers that are interesting. Be honest -- you KNOW you always suspected that Dubya, with ears like he has, was REALLY fathered by an escapee from the Roswell alien prison: probably by Jar-Jar Binks himself. But it's always good to have a "legitimate" ...

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