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|title=Frenzy!: How the tabloid press turned three evil serial killers into celebrities

|author=Neil Root

|publisher=Arrow Books

|date=August 2012

|summary=A great true crime book, covering three interesting cases in one fell swoop, but perhaps letting down the media studies graduate in me when it comes to the tabloid press discussion.

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It was forever thus. Only last year, 2011, did the ''News of the World'' and the ''Sunday Mirror'' stop being the double-headed monster of tabloid journalism, and very little was different in the 1950s, beyond the inclusion of boobies, and the fact the ''Mirror'' was then just the ''Sunday Pictorial''. Both formed a duopoly for those in their audience seeking all the salacious details of the scandals of the day, and the crimes and criminals people would talk about over their breakfasts. Three men stood out in those days for the ways in which they achieved their notoriety, and this book is an account of their goings-on, and how the press reported the stories – at times paying large fortunes for the privilege.