George Juergens: A "strategy of attracting a larger audience by concentrating on stories of timeless appeal - sex, crime, tragedy ... to catch the interest, even to titillate, the vast body of men and women who for one reason or another are unconcerned with happenings in government, business or the arts."
1) Human interest stories now encompass what used to be private, that is, gossip and scandal in the lives of individuals with particular focus on crime and tragedy. The news is about "personalities," what we in the 21st Century call those who are "famous for being famous."
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Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner are all pregnant ...
https://www.vox.com/.../9/.../triple-kardashian-pregnancy-conspiracy-theory-explaine...
4 days ago - Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and half-sister Kylie Jenner are all pregnant. Some people think Kris Jenner planned it.
2) Sensational news sources have their own ideas of what is important. Their philosophy of "gatekeeping" changes. If it bleeds it leads! Or, as Juergens phrases it, matters of "statecraft" will be "evicted" from the front page if "a provocative items of scandal is available to take its place."
Term paper topic: Ethics of the front page of a newspaper or the home page of a website.
Today's sfchronicle.com
Today's sfgate.com
Today's California front pages
Bastards!
3) A unique prose style arises. "The language in a sensational newspaper tends to be slangy, colloquial, personal. In such a way does a sensational journal express its identity with the masses of people who patronize it."
The Sun (UK):
Las Vegas gun maniac Stephen Paddock was hooked on video poker and blew £8,000-a-day in the weeks before the bloodbath, according to reports.
Cops will be probing whether the seemingly mild mannered ex-accountant’s gambling addiction drove him to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
The Daily Star (UK)
31-year-old Amber Heard and Elon Musk, 46, split in August, but she seems to be handling the single gal lifestyle like a pro.
Just days after she was spotted cosying up to a mystery man on the Gold Coast, Australia, Amber Heard's Instagram was updated with a flesh-flashing video.
Inviting fans to get up-close-and-personal, the US beauty posed mid-pampering session alongside her trusty makeup artist and hairstylist.
Making sure to give her 567K followers a perv's eye view, the blonde bombshell wore a skintight white tank top and teeny shorts.
She completed the revealing ensemble with a sky-high pair of patent black heels.
Having opted to ditch her bra in the relaxed setting, the Magic Mike XXL actress served major sideboob as she allowed her cleavage to roam free.
With a wine glass in one hand, the brazen vixen amped up the raunch factor, putting on a teasing display for the camera.
Perched on stool, the starlet embraced the 'up skirt' pose trend as she lifted her legs up and down in the air.
The Globe (US):
COLDHEARTED movie beauty Nicole Kidman is so icy cruel, she’s turned her back on the dying, cancer-ravaged manager who rocketed her to stardom! In a deathbed confession, her former manager Marc Epstein rips the lid off the Big Little Lies star’s glamorous, squeaky-clean image to reveal her secret heartless dark side, her raging jealousies and feuds with stars like Julia Roberts. Epstein, who began working with the 22-year-old redhead after she scored a hit with the 1989 thriller Dead Calm and helped turn her into a household name, says, “Nicole was a nice woman in the early days.”
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