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My Favorite Tabloid Headlines Revealed On RT TV

by Michael Musto

July 18, 2011

I just appeared on RT TV, which did a segment investigating the good and mainly the bad of tabloid journalism in the wake of the Rupert Murdoch evidence-tampering mess over in the U.K.

Interviewer Anastasia Churkina asked me for some of the more memorable headlines I’ve seen in the tabs through the years.

Naturally, I cited the Post‘s 1982 classic, “Headless Body in Topless Bar.” That one was so brilliant my head nearly flew off when I read it.

As for the other all-time sicko favorite …

… Well, you’ll have to watch the clip.

How’s that for a tabloid journalists’s twisted manipulation skills at work?

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