Supermarket tabloids are national weekly magazines in the United States, printed on newsprint in tabloid format, specalizing in celebrity news, gossip, astrology, and bizarre (some would say apocryphal) stories about ordinary people. Unlike regular tabloid-format newspapers, supermarket tabloids are distributed through the magazine distribution channel, similarly to other weekly magazines and mass-market paperback books.
If you think the tabloids have been rough in the way they've covered the Kobe Bryant case so far, Shapiro, who was in Eagle County to investigate the case for the CBS magazine show "48 Hours," said you haven't seen anything yet.
Tabloid journalism depends on shock value and manipulating information and people, said Shapiro, and obtaining information to which they might not be legally entitled.
Among tabloids' favorite techniques is calling in misinformation to police officers, lying about a fight in some celebrity's residence, then skulking in the bushes until the police show up to check it out, Shapiro said.
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