Method Acting....

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:24 pm

Probably People magazine. I have sooo many tabloid crap that I get in clipping packs from that magazine about Jim.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:06 pm

After the death of Princess Diana...I had to take a long look (although I wasn't buying any tabloids) at the influence of tabloids on people's lives AND deaths.

forgive me being the cynic here.........but the tabloids did NOT kill Diana......it was a car crash .........caused by a drunk driver.......
and Diana courted the press.......She wanted them on her terms.........but it doesn't work like that in the media........it's all or nothing.........when you court the press you have to live by THEIR rules.........if you are private the press eventually get bored.........
Sorry to dissapoint some people but Diana was no 'Queen of Hearts'........i think her overseas image was nauseatingly saintly........
and subsequent truths have revealed an altogether less appealing Diana........however, she was also just a human being...............whose death was a tragedy for her friends and family.....

but the press didn't kill her..............the crash did

fluffy

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:24 pm

Good point

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:03 pm

but the press didn't kill her..............the crash did

We're going to have to agree to disagree. I know the driver was drunk...but they were fleeing the papparazzi.

I'm amazed that people think tabloid info is ok.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:26 pm

I'm amazed that people think tabloid info is ok

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i think you'll find you're in the minority there...............i could say i'm amazed that people write off the tabloids without accepting their differring perspectives.......................
BTW............. you get 'People' on subscribtion don't you??.......we don't get that here so i don't know it...........but is IT a tabloid???

fluffy

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:33 pm

I do not consider People to be a tabloid. My understanding of the tabloids is that they are The Star, The Globe, The News of the world, The National Enquirer.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:37 pm

Cotton help me out here...........Is the People a tabloid.........????.........

fluffy

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:32 pm

And....I DON'T get it on subscription. I sometimes buy it at the store checkout.

...............i could say i'm amazed that people write off the tabloids without accepting their differring perspectives.......................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:43 pm

hey.....i did say i didn't know it the people was or wasn't one...........

re definition.........that's fine.........

fluffy

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:00 pm

Yea it is a tabloid. Any magazine that has pics of celebs doing things in their personal time is a tabloid. US and In Touch magazines are not newspapers but they ARE tabloids cause they buy pics from the paps and fill their mags withs crap stories. You did not know that Quirks?

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:15 pm

I disagree with you. How many times has People been sued for printing absolute crap?

I wouldn't put it in the same category with The Star AT ALL. People has a fair amount of "human interest" stories that have nothing to do with celebs.

cotton · Post by **cotton** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:22 pm

Yea but they still buy pics from the paps keeping The paps in business.

I have many stories they printed of Jim. One of them was the story of Jim and Renee going on his jet just so they could make love 1,000's of feet in the sky then parachute back down to land. They talked about that one on Howard Stern 2003(the radio version) Jim laughed like crazy when he heard it.

quirky · Post by **quirky** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:08 pm

Yea but they still buy pics from the paps keeping The paps in business.

If this is your criteria..it makes Cosmo, Glamour and Redbook tabloids, too.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:52 pm

Exactly my point........tabloid journalism saturates every publication, it is part of our modern culture......

I think Linda has it pegged.........it was an honest and credible analysis ...........

...............

fluffy

mav · Post by **mav** » Sat May 13, 2006 12:09 am

Most everything is tabloid. As Linda mentioned we relish the juicy stories. Some, like People, are not all crap. Many are. We censor ourselves. Why? Because it is well known that the object of our fanaticism values his privacy and doesn't want, for instance, speculation on divorces etc. because it cheapens what was precious. If we care about him, we won't.
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