tabloids

It's not just mainstream news publications that are have difficulty surviving in the recession. American Media, the parent of tabloids the National Enquirer and Star, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday.

Americans are interested in Michael Jackson's death -- really, really interested -- but not so much in looking at his dying body, apparently. OK! magazine spent a reported $500,000 to obtain the exclusive "last photo" of the singer en route to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. But the...