MetaFilter posts tagged with tabloid

Bat Boy, RIP

Yakuman — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:54:20 -0800

Bye Bye, Bat Boy! The Weekly World News is suspending publication.

Read all about it!

Gamblor — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:18:48 -0800

Extra! Tabloid photographs from the Los Angeles Herald Express (1936-1961), showing celebrities, fashion, tragedy, (early) CHiPs, and babes with guns. Via the Virtual Gallery at the LA Public Library, which has many other fine exhibits, such as California in the 20s, the 1932 Olympics, celebrity golf, and a wonderful collection from the golden age of travel posters.

Smells like Pulitzer. Or something.

docgonzo — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:58:49 -0800

"Where's my pitbull?" In which our 'hero', Carl Monday, CLEVELAND'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, attends the sentencing of Mike Cooper, an "unemployed porn site user", caught pleasuring himself at a local library. (Metafilter passim; via Deadspin's full coverage of Carl Monday.)

South Wales man in terror shock exclusive - pictures

nylon — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:38:15 -0800

Cardiff Terrifies Me. Daily news-stand headlines from that bastion of quality journalism, the South Wales Echo.

terror in the tabloids

handee — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:25:07 -0800

Daily Mail Watch keeps an eye on some of Britain's more right wing newspapers.

The real slim shady

omidius — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:03:24 -0800

Who is the real Slim Shady? Does he pass on a jacuzzi full of thong-laden women for a manicure, tanning and full spa treatment? yup.

Ed Anger, R.I.P.

chicobangs — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:02:38 -0800

Eddie Clontz, longtime editor of the Weekly World News, creator of Ed Anger, Bat Boy and other semi-real totems of society's fuzzy underbelly, is dead at 56.

The fact that I had to find this out in The Economist, of all places, makes me madder than -- than -- than George S. Patton at a Peace Rally.

Maybe Buddhism not for everybody. That's OK.

crunchburger — Sat, 02 Aug 2003 14:10:48 -0800

Dalai Llama Misses Sex, Shoots Guns This is the finest tabloid newspaper headline evar. Remember Peter Falk, in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, admiring the rhythmic and sadistic anticlimax of the headline: 'Scalp Grandma, then rob her' ? This is better. Should I have worked on the school paper instead of playing bass? I could have been a contender.via fark.

prentiz — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:36:30 -0800

Trial by Tabloid? Top BBC presenter Angus Deaton has been sacked after a sex & drugs scandal. He has presented comedy news quiz Have I Got News For You for over ten years. So, is ti right for him to be sacked after trial by tabloid? Do we actually care what our T.V. presenters get up to after the cameras are turned off?

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:31:16 -0800

Gary Condit's wife suing the National Enquirer. Condit. Tabloid. Condit. Tabloid. There's so much to hate in this story.... yay?

aaron — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:16:34 -0800

So it's finally come down to this. E-content, 2002 style. Could there be any more conclusive proof that the dotcom era is over?

feelinglistless — Fri, 18 May 2001 14:23:02 -0800

Joanne's beaus one thru four revealed. Something which really exposes the underbelly of the football (soccer) world. Phone-in host and media guru Danny Baker wrung some milleage a few years ago from a single caller over a number of months. Joanne, a woman of generous virtue, was quietly working her way through the back four of a well known Premiereship football team, and calling Baker's saturday show both morning and evening revealing all but names in shocking yet hilarious detail. The British tabloids and football chatrooms were ablaze with theories about who these four players were and also the two managers involved (one of which paid her £5000 to retain naked photos she had taken of him, lest a red-top get hold of them). Well now we finally know - and with all of Joannes calls collected together for the first time. [Real Audio, streaming and download]