A Look Into Tabloid Culture with Dean Piper

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Publicist and former UK tabloid journalist Dean Piper joins Jameela to discuss the ins-and-outs of tabloid journalism, and the way it impacts the way we view women. They discuss how social media has impacted celebrity journalism and empowered celebrities, the lengths paparazzi go to to "get the shot," the way tabloid journalism creates "build them up and tear them down" narratives around women, and the ways we as the public should also be held accountable.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jameen the Jameel. I hope that you're well. I am
0:06.1	fine. I've just started a new job in the last week or so. I'm shooting myself because I feel
0:12.2	very rusty and under-prepared and freaked out and filming during COVID is extremely odd,
0:19.0	though I'm so excited and grateful to be back at work. But oh, I feel like a beginner again.
0:25.0	I wonder if any of you are going through the same thing. Now that everyone's getting vaccinated,
0:29.4	the world's opening back up are any of you facing anxiety about the world opening back up. I've
0:34.5	expressed that before during many of my intros, my fear of who I am and how the hell I'm going to
0:40.4	cope at something called a party. If I ever go to one of those again, anyway, I am... I'll keep
0:47.5	you posted, I guess as best as I can about how I'm doing on this new job. I think you'll just be
0:54.5	able to gauge it from the tension in my voice, but wish me luck. Now, today's episode means a lot
1:02.3	to me. It's a conversation I've wanted to have for ages and I didn't quite know how I was going
1:08.6	to go about it. If you have been following me for a while, you might know that I am obsessed
1:14.5	with how damaging tabloid media is in particular to women. I really believe in the system of
1:21.0	building women up specifically to rip them down. I've had conversations before in this podcast
1:26.5	just last week. I had Kelly Roland on the podcast to being extraordinary. If you have not heard
1:30.5	that episode, please go back and listen to it. She's so amazing and I feel as though not enough
1:35.8	people in the world, even though she's got 10 million followers on Instagram. Still, that is not
1:39.8	enough people in the world knowing what a gem and an icon this woman is. So go back and listen to
1:46.6	that. She and I touched on media interference in her career, what it was like dealing with that
1:53.0	misogyny, so many lies. While it's all good and well and so important to have this conversation
2:00.8	with those who are suffering from this dynamic, it's also really important to have this conversation
2:08.0	with those who were on the other side with one of the journalists. I just so happen to know someone
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