Tabloid Tales: Global Debates Over Media Standards - Paperbackby Colin Sparks (Editor), John Tulloch (Editor), Barbie Zelizer (Foreword by) The increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as 'tabloidization.' The essays in this book are the first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, this is not just a U. S.