Tabloid Baby

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Summary: A must-read for students
Review: A suprisingly forthcoming, self-effacing and devillishly funny book, Tabloid Baby is a must-read for any student of journalism or communications. Never have the nuts and bolts of the business been exposed in such an entertaining fashion.

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Summary: Hilarious! A pop history book that reads like a novel!
Review: I'm one of the many media-types who have been waiting for this book for months. It was worth the wait. I started reading and couldn't put the thing down. This book tells an inside story of the television business in a way I've never seen before. It's a history book that reads like a novel. It's hilarious, it's sad, it's shocking, and it moves. I never thought I'd feel sympathy for the guys who ran that sleazy tabloid TV business, but the characters are rich, multi-sided and likeable--even the ones you have to despise-- and you really root for the main character to get out of the business while he's still alive! This book names names and it reveals secrets, but at the same time explains what tabloid television might have been-- and what today's TV business could have been like--if the good guys won. I know some of the people mentioned in this book. They're not going to be happy. But they can't deny how accurate Kearns is. He's a pretty brave (crazy?) guy to lay it all on the line like this. This book is going to rock a lot of worlds in the TV news business. I predict it's going to be huge.

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Summary: Now more than ever
Review: In light of recent events, this deconstruction of the television news business and revelations about its turn toward poignant and personal stories is especially relevant.

In light of recent events, it also provides a refreshing diversion.

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Summary: Now more than ever
Review: In light of recent events, this deconstruction of the television news business and revelations about its turn toward poignant and personal stories is especially relevant.

In light of recent events, it also provides a refreshing diversion.

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Summary: A petty little man tells all- who cares?
Review: It's just a matter of time... before the literary establishment wakes up... and takes notice of this solid and substantial work of literature... a bildungsroman... a combination of Treasure Island and What Makes Sammy Run... a Runyon and Capote of the 21st Century... The Eye sees first...

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Summary: Brave, informative and really really funny!
Review: Tabloid Baby by Burt Kearns is well worth a read! It shows how television news turned into tabloid television and how tabloid television turned into "reality television." It also shows how a guy like Bryant Gumbel went from being a newsman who opposed Tabloid TV to a shill for "Survivor" every morning. Kearns's focus on a handful of renegades who ran Tabloid TV gives Tabloid Baby a novelistic feel. And even though he is biased and sometimes savage in what he writes, he is brave for doing so and is also very very funny!

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Summary: Brave, informative and really really funny!
Review: This book covers the birth of tabloid television journalism from its seemly beginnings in the 80's. I have always found these type of shows to be a guilty pleasure. I found that the people behind the shows are indeed as uncontrollable and uncouth as I imagined. This testosterone fueled book is impossible to read. It jumps from one story to the next, the language is over the top and it commits the very worst sin of tabloid reporting....it is boring! Way too long.

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Summary: We care about Tabloid Baby!
Review: We're glad to see that Tabloid Baby is still getting under the skins of network newsies! After almost a year, it's "required reading" among us producers and obviously its given a few pointers to the network newsies! Tabloid Baby is the funnest book I've read this year and the ones whod call it petty are the real little petty ones! Viva tabloid baby! Viva! Viva! Tabloid Baby!

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Summary: Fabulous Book!
Review: When I finished reading Tabloid Baby I was saddened because- now what would I hurry home to read at night? I looked forward to each page and enjoyed each page! I loved it! Fast pased, great character interation, hot- stuff! Well, then I decided to read "I'll Be Right Back" by Mike Douglas -- another behind the scenes look in the TV world but - this time of TV's Greatest Talk Show! _--- I still love Mike Douglas but I gotta tell you.... BORING compared to tabloid Baby.. I couldn't help comparing! Tabloid has action, drama, lust, high jinx and more.... It reads like a novel.. would make a great movie-- BRAVO! What about a sequel?

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Summary: Fabulous Book!
Review: When I finished reading Tabloid Baby I was saddened because- now what would I hurry home to read at night? I looked forward to each page and enjoyed each page! I loved it! Fast pased, great character interation, hot- stuff! Well, then I decided to read "I'll Be Right Back" by Mike Douglas -- another behind the scenes look in the TV world but - this time of TV's Greatest Talk Show! _--- I still love Mike Douglas but I gotta tell you.... BORING compared to tabloid Baby.. I couldn't help comparing! Tabloid has action, drama, lust, high jinx and more.... It reads like a novel.. would make a great movie-- BRAVO! What about a sequel?