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Slate's Jack Shafer had a good piece last week on the tabloid excesses of the editors at CNN.com, MSNBC.com and FoxNews.com, which included a list of very tabloid sounding headlines that were given "top story" status, including: 

from CNN:

Baby's body, car seat found on roadside
Girls gang-raped, forced to be sex slaves
Dr. Phil bums out Star Wars fanatic's wife
Students expelled for making out on bus
Nuns-and-nude ad upsets Catholics

from MSNBC:

Haiti's poor resort to eating dirt
Watch that hot drink! Airline offers naked flights
Dr. Phil defends intentions with Spears
Video: Life after dog fighting
Video: Trains turn car into fireball

and from FoxNews:

British Teen Films Herself Trying To Kill Parents
Family Lost in Woods Says Ranger Wouldn't Help Them
Husband Arrested After Wife's Body Found in Freezer
Granny Locks Boy in Cage, Says He Poisoned Her
Chinese Dumplings Put Child in Coma, Sicken Several

And this passes for journalism?  Read Jack's whole piece here, where he tries to explain why sites have such a tabloid obsession.

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).

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