It was sort of trial by fire — if you’ll pardon the pun. I’d been writing for Between The Lines mere months before I was sent to Pontiac to cover the retrial of Jonathan Schmitz, aka the redux of the ...

Let's flash back a year to the world as it was early in 2007, when a tabloid TV-infested nation received daily updates on Anna Nicole Smith, in what amounted to a pop culture death watch. The tabloid ...

Bill Maher took on the Catholic Church in his final New Rule of the night, and more specifically, the gossip-like, borderline fawning coverage from the media over every single thing the new Pope has ...

Tabloid journalism is an art unto itself, a rock 'em, sock 'em, go-for-the-jugular enterprise that conjures up the get-me-rewrite days of newspapering. And these comments in "Tabloid Wars," a six-part ...