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...dismissed by most critics, laughed at by many viewers. Yet when sensational crimes and celebrity scandals grab the nation's attention, these are the shows that do the spadework, uncover the dirt, get the scoops. Their style may be cheesy and their tactics dicey (including liberal use of the checkbook), but they are doing a lot of old-fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves journalism. What's more, at a time when the network- magazine shows are not only embracing more sensational material but also getting into serious trouble for employing some irresponsible techniques (as in Dateline...
...question up front: "How much will you pay?" The networks claim they do not pay for interviews, though tabloid sources insist that such payments are often disguised as "consultant fees" to freelance producers or as purchases of video footage. The tabloids too are suffering the consequences of their checkbook journalism. In the wake of the Michael Jackson child-abuse charges, people started coming out of the woodwork offering dubious tales of other alleged abuse involving the singer -- for a price. "Ironically, even the people who'll say good things about Michael Jackson want to get paid," says a tabloid source...
...little more than a down payment: in settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Prudential said it will fully compensate all investors who can show they were bilked in some $8 billion worth of partnership deals dating back to 1980. Moreover, the company is all but handing over its checkbook to Irving Pollack, 75, a Washington attorney and former SEC commissioner, who will determine the size of each award, if Prudential's offers prove unacceptable to investors...
Some fundamentals have not been abandoned. While targeted to a broader but still affluent readership, much of the advertising remains the same. One can still indulge in checkbook liberalism, save indigenous peoples on the brink of extinction, help educate innercity children, purchase personalized cartouches and locate points of departure for global heroics, even while deciding which luxury car to purchase. The Tilley hat is still available...
...Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted, the entire contents of the "drunk, sick and broken" Chaim Soutine's studio...