Sentences with phrase «taking tabloid stories»

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The matter remains open, too, before the New York tabloids, including the right - leaning New York Post, which often provides an acidic take on the Democratic governor's performance and which first reported the story of Cater's lawsuit Saturday.

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.

Make your sappy true - life tabloid story, but at the very least take a small amount of time flipping back over the entire history of music in search of a cut that's more interesting, more vital than the god - damn Passenger — something which doesn't instantly remind you of many other, better movies.

Ed Howard: In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.

This Rashomon - style take on a salacious tabloid story attempts to show that, beyond the media frenzy that abused Harding's image and laid the groundwork for what became our exhausting and overwhelming 24 - hour news cycle, the story of the events are still somewhat complicated.

And «I, Tonya» reaches a peak of acrid truth - telling when Harding sits in her kitchen, takes a drag on her cigarette, looks into the camera, and reminds us that among the many vultures picking at her pop - culture corpse were you and me and everyone who clucked our tongues or bought a tabloid or turned up the TV volume on this story in 1994 and ever since.

In composing the song, Stevens says he felt a «conviction to write something with dignity and grace, to pull back the ridiculous tabloid fodder and take stock of the real story of this strange and magnificent American hero».

From lazy stories taken off social media sites to uncontrollable rumour mongering and even outright attacks on their audience, gaming journalism is to real journalism what the average tabloid is to the BBC.