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Posts tagged with people magazine

How to choose the big story

Posted by: | September 14, 2014 | No Comment |

Every week I look forward to getting my issue of  “People Magazine.” I always wonder what news this week will be on the cover page. I really thought for the week of September 15, the cover would have at the very least, a small bock mentioning the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the beheading of […]

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It’s no secret that the public is hungry for news. We’ve always passed on stories, gathered in coffeehouses and read up on any and every kind of news we could find. However, in 1974, a different kind of “news” magazine came along; celebrity reporting and human interest pieces came to the forefront of American culture […]

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Sensationalism or defamation?

Posted by: | October 28, 2010 | No Comment |

Mitchell Stephens wrote in his book ‘A History of News,’ that “Murders and their victims surrender all rights to privacy,” he goes on to quote John McEnroe a former tennis star that claimed that, “Being a celebrity is like I am being raped.” If murders and victims surrender all their rights to privacy and being […]

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