Tabloid Ethics

«“I knew the National Enquirer was slimy, but I didn’t know they were this slimy,” said Kelly McBride, the senior vice president and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the non-profit Poynter Institute. “It is so far outside the practice of journalism that it’s hard for me to even imagine that this was happening.”»

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«Paying for stories, fabricating stories and striking secret details to support political campaigns are all flagrant violations of basic journalism tenets, codified in many news outlet’s internal ethics policies and the Society of Professional Journalism’s Code of Ethics.»

David Pecker testimony at Trump trial reveals the seedy underbelly of his tabloid journalism