That gossip columnist we wrote about here in the last post, Nigel Dempster (that's his photo at the top), was quoted saying, "There is a holiday in my heart when I discover another marriage breakup."
Nice guy.
----------------- ...the sentences and phrases that Tina Brown writes tend to fascinate me:
the two tabloids that have "a thin, translucent coating of middle-class respectability"
"sources routinely denounced and routinely embraced"
"screaming populist tabloids"
"daily blizzard of headlines"
"from the benign to the malign without a pause for magnanimity..."
"a swashbuckling editor"
"fiendishly well-connected, dazzlingly anecdotal"
..."scattered rains gave way to drenching gales and then to spectacular and finally lethal hurricanes" - and here, of course, she isn't even talking about actual weather, she has made a series of metaphors to describe escalating media intrusion on people whose images grab attention....
Such prose could knock you flat. It's a plush, dynamic writing style.
Tina Brown sort of does with words and language what Julia Child did with food.
One thing to bear in mind - Ms. Brown's description of print media in Great Britain, which is quoted and excerpted here in this blog, was from a book that was published in the year 2007.
We had the Internet back then, but social media had not yet "taken over" to the extent it has now, so all that information about Britain's "voracious" readers buying newspapers might need updating here, nearly 20 years later.
Fleet Street - the heart of the British newspaper and printing industry for nearly 500 years
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