A lesson in tabloid journalism

Anyone who spends any time in grocery stores these days is well acquainted with the depths to which tabloid journalism has sunk. As an aside, I must say that it always strikes me as remarkable when I hear someone use tabloids as a source of data -- do otherwise intelligent people really not understand that it is made up?

What's more insidious, though, is the way the tabloid's effects have spread to what should be respectable media, including the BBC. See the report on FREEDOM's site about a BBC reporter seduced by the dark side of "journalism":

http://www.freedommag.org/bbc/video_flash.html

What the hell was this guy thinking?

Oh, yeah, I guess that's the problem -- he wasn't.