Crass filmi journalists

The media usually has had a field day with the revelations, but there are real lessons to be learned. While the vast majority of the media maintain high levels of integrity, the resistance by some newspapers to correcting basic falsehoods is alarming. The gossip page is the best page, with the rise of blogs, reality TV, camera phones and other types of instant media, one can see a day when anyone, anywhere could become the subject of salacious journalism. And as gossip journalism spreads, so do the shoddy standards that accompany it. I’m not talking about bribes or extortion. One hopes that’s a rare practice. We’ve all read how well-known and respected journalists have kept the shoddy secrets of film stars but there is another category too, people who revel in being sadists and misuse the pen and spill out their secrets and break their trust.