`TABLOID WARS' BRINGS VIEWERS INTO THE NEWSROOM.Byline: - David Kronke To be honest, I kind of wanted not to like Bravo's new reality series ``Tabloid Wars Tabloid Wars is a reality TV series that aired in the summer of 2006 on the Bravo cable network. It followed reporters and editors from the New York Daily News. ,'' just so I could mimic some of the most infamously lurid headlines from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. tabloids: You know, like ``HEADLESS SHOW ON TOPLESS NETWORK,'' or ``KRONKE TO BRAVO: DROP DEAD.'' But ``Tabloid Wars'' is a pretty solid show, as reality series go. It might help that the people depicted in it, reporters and editors of the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. , did not sign up or audition for it; they were simply told by their superiors that the paper had agreed to allow Bravo's cameras into the newsroom. Hence, instead of the usual ``bring-it-on'' bravado so many reality series' participants truck in, here, we see committed and clever people simply doing their job. ``Tabloid Wars'' does a pretty fair job of depicting the dynamics of a newsroom, showing how an amorphous story evolves, how the gallows humor gallows humor, n a dark or morbid sense of humor unique to people who deal with suffering and tragedy—for example, patients who are terminally ill joking about their illness or death as a means of coping with the illness. of journalist and editors who have reported too much bad news casually springs forth. Tonight's episode focuses on a beating in Howard Beach, site of a notorious racial murder 20 years ago. Here, however, the particulars are murkier -- it's not immediately clear whether the crime was racially motivated, and the victim was possibly an auto thief. We see dogged reporter Kerry Burke
Next week, staffers Burke and Jonathan Lemire -- a sharp, acerbically funny city reporter -- race to get the details behind a cop shooting, which, as Burke points out, are ``the wood,'' slang for Page 1 stories. Back at the office, deputy metropolitan editor Greg Gittrich -- a onetime reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers -- struggles to ensure that the stories from his reporters cohere cohere (kōhēr´), v to stick together, to unite, to form a solid mass. . ``Tabloid Wars'' also expends a lot of ink -- or, rather, videotape -- on the paper's gossip columnists as they mingle with the likes of Gloria Gotti and Adrian Grenier Adrian Grenier (born July 10, 1976) is an American actor, musician and director. Grenier is best known for his lead role on the HBO original series, Entourage, as Vincent Chase. . These folks wear their jadedness like a red badge of courage. One, while touting his career path, disses both NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. employees (Bravo is owned by NBC-Universal) and ``lobotomized publicists.'' Here's wondering whether said career path will proceed as calculatedly as he intended. TABLOID WARS Three stars What: Reality series on the newspaper business. Where: Bravo. When: 9 tonight. In a nutshell: Does a pretty fair and compelling job of depicting newsroom dynamics. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Deputy metropolitan editor Greg Gittrich coordinates story coverage in next week's episode of ``Tabloid Wars.'' The reality series debuts at 9 tonight on Bravo. |
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