Sentences with phrase «of tabloid news»

It reminded me of tabloid news, and reaked of sensationlism.

She's not the violent Barbie doll of tabloid news and late - night punchlines: «I'm a real person.»

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Google observed the rise of tabloid cloaking in 2016 — meaning ads that looked like news stories but ultimately led readers to a site selling a product, like weight - loss pills.

Brooks has been in charge of News International's four British newspapers since 2007, following a four - year stint as editor of the market - leading daily tabloid, The Sun.

Cameron said his friend Rebekah Brooks, a former editor of the tabloid, should have resigned as chief executive of News International, the British unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp..

From Royal Baby news to Gossip Girl — style soaps to tabloid magazine pieces about the Hiltons, we love stories of heirs and heiresses and great dynastic families — particularly if those families meet a nasty end.

Cameron acknowledged Friday that the relationship with the media had become too cozy and promised to hold investigations into activities at the News of the World tabloid and into future media regulation

Brooks was editor of the News of the World tabloid between 2000 and 2003, including the time when the paper's employees allegedly hacked into the telephone of 13 - year - old murder victim Milly Dowler when police were searching for her.

These tabloid - sized publications are anchored in extensive on - the - ground coverage of local and regional news and events, while also covering relevant national issues and offering in - depth product reviews.

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And Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One who successfully brought a series of suits against News of the World for publishing pictures of him involved in an orgy, later funded a number of lawsuits against the same tabloid by people who said its journalists had hacked their phones.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

His conscience — and perhaps also his resentment of the long years waiting for the throne — propels him into a conflict with Parliament over a bill to restrict the tabloid news.

So did Flannery O» Connor, old Doris Day movies, Garrison Keillor, and the front page of the tabloid Weekly World News.

So much of it reminded me of tabloid / Fox news bulls % $ t, like the Bell fracas over Hell.

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Ahead of the run up to the league fixtures each weekend, news outlets, websites and tabloids alike are flooded with a flurry of pre-match reports and analyses.

This latest news by «The Sun», one of the leading English tabloids, will have the Leeds United faithful feeling uneasy with its report of owner Massimo Cellino wanting to bring Barnsley's assistant head coach Tom Wright to Elland Road.

Surrogacy can seem like a strange concept to those who have maybe only heard of it in celebrity news or read tabloid stories.

The prime minister said he had decided to give the former News of the World editor, who had edited the tabloid at the time when royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed for phone - hacking, a «second chance» because he had «done the honourable thing» by resigning.

15:34 - The Murdochs confirm they don't have any plans to replace the News of the World with another Sunday tabloid.

Pressure on the Murdochs over the phone - hacking scandal is unlikely to abate after forcing the resignation of News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and the closure of the News of the World tabloid earlier this year.

The last week has seen the media mogul shut down the News of the World tabloid, abandon his # 10 billion bid to buy BSkyB and accept the resignation of News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.

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By Sunday, when news reports of that passport emerged, the tabloid press jumped on it with depressing predictability.

The bill has been championed by The Daily News in recent weeks, with the tabloid's wood seeking to shame Albany lawmakers into passing the bill that would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations for child sex abuse as well as the civil statute of limitations.

The News Corporation chairman and his son have insisted they did not know that phone - hacking was widespread at the now - defunct News of the World tabloid.

He was among the tabloid journalists covering the breakdown of the marriage of Diana, Princess of Wales and Prince Charles, and at the time held the News of the World record for number of consecutive front page splashes, with five.

He said that responsibility for not spotting the wrongdoing at News of the World was down to a handful of individuals, including the now defunct tabloid's editors.

At their appearance before the committee, Rupert Murdoch said it had been «the most humble day of my life» and argued that since he ran a global business of 53,000 employees and that the News of the World was «just 1 percent» of this, he was not ultimately responsible for what went on at the tabloid; he added that he had not considered resigning.

The scandal has already resulted in the shuttering of the Murdoch - owned tabloid News of the World and prevented the company's British subsidiary News International from purchasing a larger share of BSkyB.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan picked up his second tabloid endorsement this morning, landing the support of the Daily News, which said the Republican's years of prosecutorial experience and lack of political ties to Albany make him «best suited» to clean up public corruption in state government.

This was also the week when the government confirmed its intention to press ahead with High Speed Rail 2; that the Leveson inquiry heard the somewhat mixed case for the defence from tabloid news editors; and that we tasted, briefly, the sweet prospect of Eric Cantona running for the French presidency.

While his agenda does seem to entail the destruction of the entirety of the tabloid press, his campaign on phone - hacking was remarkably successful and he forced procedural developments onto the news merely by virtue of his presence.

Similar coverage was provided by other tabloids, who showed several photographs of the model in revealing clothing, but none chose to put the images on the front page, next to the news of the killing.

But they might notice Ed Miliband's speech next week, and some policy announcements will probably get through to the pages of the tabloids and the news bulletins on commercial radio stations.

When I say, pandering to the tabloid press, you can't do more than what the hopeless Teresa May did this morning than by sucking up to the News of the World with a filmed interview.

Ian Edmondson, who has been suspended from active duties after allegations that he was linked to phone hacking at the News of the World, was one of Andy Coulson's inner circle of executives when David Cameron's director of communications was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter on the tabloid.

The email was sent at 4.20 pm on 11 July 2011, the day after the News of the World closed and seven days after the Guardian disclosed that the tabloid had hacked the voicemail messages of the missing Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, triggering a chain reaction of further revelations and political outcry.

The only tabloid journalist included in the footnotes is Ken Lovett of the New York Daily News.

Now, amid allegations that a British tabloid owned by the News Corporation, News of the World, hacked the cellphone of a murdered 13 - year - old girl nine years ago, Mr. Murdoch has announced the appointment of Mr. Klein to «provide important oversight and guidance» in investigating the matter.

And so for local news outlets, watching self - styled progressive - wing Democrat Bill de Blasio, a Hillary supporter, navigating this primary (as well as all the other local electeds) has been the play within the play — no less riveting, and no less worthy of tabloid treatment.

Former tabloid reporter Dan Evans said that a Sienna Miller voicemail message was played in the News of the World office and ex-editor Andy Coulson was among those who heard it, a jury heard.

Under Brooks and then Coulson, the News of the World was a paper at the peak of its powers, trampling over its competition with a string of classic tabloid exclusives: from David Beckham's affair with his nanny to Prince Harry's drug - taking, it consistently landed the stories that shocked, titillated and scandalised.

After today, the tabloid will appear no more, felled not by one royal rogue reporter but by the arrogance, ambition and apparent tolerance of systemic criminal behaviour by members of the senior News International management.

The News of the World was the biggest - selling Sunday tabloid in the English - speaking world.

Paul McMullan, former News of the World deputy features editor, told the Guardian newspaper this morning that David Cameron's communications chief «would certainly be well aware that the practice was pretty widespread,» and the paper reported that Paul McMullan «claims that phone - hacking and other illegal reporting techniques were rife at the tabloid while... Andy Coulson was deputy editor and then editor of the paper.»

The hacking scandal blew up again this week after the New York Times published a lengthy article including the claim that Coulson freely discussed the use of unlawful news - gathering techniques during his time as editor of the tabloid.

As a man who gets most of his news from supermarket tabloids, I am uniquely qualified to tell you that in 2006 alone, Lindsay Lohan enlisted a hypnotist to help address her addiction to shopping; that Kevin Federline was considering using one on his smoking habit, before smoking became the least of his worries; and, from the nethermost pages of the tabloids, that hypnosis might offer relief to sufferers of irritable bowel syndrome, hair loss, or low sex drive.

When a tabloid best known for topless pinups breaks a Science journal embargo to publish news of a major physics finding, you know the world has gone a little gaga.