"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

"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.