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...Star prides itself on being the class act among supermarket tabloids. "We never run stories on two-headed monsters," says editor Richard Kaplan. "We are a juicy celebrity-journalism publication...
...Julie Andrews ("Julie Andrews: Sound of Music Drove Me to Shrink"). For many readers, tabloids are nothing more than the print equivalent of candy bars -- fun but insubstantial. But when it comes to his cover story on the alleged 12-year affair between Bill Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, Kaplan asserts that the tabloid, based in Tarrytown, N.Y., is on a loftier mission. "This isn't Martians walking the earth," he says. "This is a very, very real inquiry into the integrity of a major presidential candidate...
...course of defending the story, Kaplan insists on bucking the rules of both the tabloid and the mainstream press. The 1951 graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, who was an editor with both the Ladies' Home Journal and US magazine, admits that he paid Flowers for her story (though he will not say how much). But instead of proudly wallowing in the tabloid tradition of checkbook journalism, he sounds defensive about it. "We are not the first news-gathering organization to pay for interviews," he says. He claims the story is true because the Star has obtained tapes...
...meantime, Kaplan insists he is not being manipulated by the Republican Party, breaking another journalistic rule by announcing that he's a Democrat. Above all, he argues for credibility by pointing to his credentials and intuition: "I think I know a story that has the ring of truth, the smell of truth, and I tell you this story has both...
...past is any indication, Kaplan's ability to sniff out the truth has not been infallible. Two years ago, the Star ran a story about the slide into homelessness of Peter Criss, the former drummer for the rock band Kiss. It turned out to be a hoax...