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TMZ skews left? Didn't they explicitly catch-and-kill a bunch of stories just to help Trump win? edit: see grandchild post, after looking for references they j
by kadoban 4y ago
TMZ skews left? Didn't they explicitly catch-and-kill a bunch of stories just to help Trump win?
edit: see grandchild post, after looking for references they just used other pro-Trump behavior, not catch-and-kill that I could find quickly.
- cplusplusfellow 4y agoMaybe the stories were false and they didn’t want to publish them accordingly? Not sure what articles you refer to but deciding not to publish something isn’t always bad.
- kadoban 4y ago"catch and kill" is the practice of buying the stories just so nobody else can publish them. It's not an honest practice. Looks like I was conflating them with another tabloid though: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/15/770249717/ronan-farrow-catch-and-kill-tactics-protected-both-weinstein-and-trump https://www.npr.org/2019/10/15/770249717/ronan-farrow-catch-... vs https://www.thedailybeast.com/tmz-goes-maga-how-harvey-levins-gossip-empire-became-trumps-best-friend https://www.thedailybeast.com/tmz-goes-maga-how-harvey-levin... They still went _way_ out of their way to help Trump win though.