However practical and just the case for reform, it must overcome political cowardice, the tabloid media and parents' understandable fears.

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Stevens worked on the third floor as a photo editor for The Sun, a tabloid published by American Media.

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The previous three cases were in South Florida at American Media, offices of the supermarket tabloid The Sun.

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The images were widely published on the Internet and by Britain's best-selling tabloid newspaper The Sun, prompting questions about media invasion of privacy.

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Steinheimer believes that the decline of the studios' power, combined with Taylor's colourful personal life, created a new, more cutting, and less sycophantic style of mainstream media coverage of celebrities - moving towards today's tabloid press.

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Wallis's former paper, the News of the World, was shuttered last summer amid public outcry over allegations of widespread phone hacking by employees at the Sunday tabloid, which was part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media empire.

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The actor is facing four members of the media, and as the interview begins one might think his experience with tabloid frenzies would make him wary when outnumbered by reporters.

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