Tag: tabloid journalism

The Web site minonline.com, a marketing publication that rates successes and failures throughout the media, released their results on which magazine covers were the best and worst sellers in 2009. A year that saw continuing economic disaster, the ongoing battle of fighting two wars and relentless debate on trying to reform a major sector of our social lives, health care, magazines that were actually bought by the most people had very little to do with these issues.

With all the controversy surrounding the Tiger Woods case, we are in a sense left to rely on one source: TMZ.

As a guy, I’m usually turned off by any mention of celebrity news and gossip going on in Hollywood. Until recently, when I heard from my younger sister that Britney Spears had checked in to rehab for the third time and had shaved her head.

It happened during my “Ethics of the Mass Media” class. We were sitting and discussing the media’s role in the whole O.J. Simpson trial, and a photocopy of a story about the media from The Wash­ing­ton Post was handed out by my professor. He then asked the class if anything in the article was disturbing. This was the start of my journalistic breakdown.