Showing 25 articles matching Tabloid murder.
Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.
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On the utility of euphemisms:
In the upper reaches of the British establishment, euphemism is a fine art, one that new arrivals need to master quickly. “Other Whitehall agencies” or “our friends over the river” means the intelligence services (American spooks often say they “work for the government”). A civil servant warning a minister that a decision would be “courageous” is saying that it will be career-cripplingly unpopular. “Adventurous” is even worse: it means mad and unworkable. A “frank discussion” is a row, while a “robust exchange of views” is a full-scale shouting match. (These kind of euphemisms are also common in Japanese, where the reply maemuki ni kento sasete itadakimasu—I will examine it in a forward-looking manner—means something on the lines of “This idea is so stupid that I am cross you are even asking me and will certainly ignore it.”)
Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.
Is Dr. Drew’s “Celebrity Rehab” therapy or tabloid voyeurism?
On Rupert Murdoch and the tabloid culture he created in the U.K.
A profile of Larry Garrison, the man who “gets paid to bring tabloid stories to TV news programs.”
How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.
On a basketball coach starting over at the lowest levels of the game after his ascendant NCAA career ended in a hazy tabloid scene at a Cleveland crackhouse.
When Jennifer Farber disappeared in 2019, suspicion immediately centered on her husband and press coverage almost exclusively painted her as a missing suburban mom. But reducing the 50-year-old’s life to a familiar tabloid trope missed so much of her story.
Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export.
Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong tabloid tycoon, thinks he’s found the future of journalism: an animation assembly line that can crank out clips recreating–or anticipating, or imagining–breaking news.
The author expounds on culture and crime in the early 90s:
Yes, I know there are sensational tabloid crimes everywhere and the closeness to the Manhattan media nexus tends to magnify everything. But even so, that was always true. There's just no denying that something has changed in the past decade, that, as our bard Billy Joel sings on his new album, there's "lots more to read about, Lolita and suburban lust." But why? Why is this Island different from all other islands? And why are so many Long Islanders suddenly running amok?
James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.
Reexamining the murder of James Jordan.
The dark world of online murder markets.
How self-harm came to take more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined.
Thirty years after the murder in Abilene, the question remains unanswered.
On the murder of a young Hasidic boy in Brooklyn.
On murder and mental illness.
How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.
Investigating the unsolved murder of a former NBA player.
On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.
Anatomy of a murder trial.
