Tabloid Truths
The National Enquirer's scoop on John Edwards is the latest in a string of exclusive tabloid stories that the mainstream media missed. Here's a look back at some milestones in supermarket journalism
— Kate Pickert
After tabloids offer large monetary rewards for tips leading to an arrest in the murder of Bill Cosby's son Ennis, police close in on an 18-year-old suspect. He was subsequently convicted of the murder based on a tip received by the National Enquirer, though a convicted forger later said that he wrote bogus letters about the murder and sold them to the Enquirer. The murderer confessed anyway and abandoned his effort to have the conviction overturned.
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