Last week's news should have set press watchdogs yipping and gnashing. American Media, the company that already owns the National Enquirer and the Star, the two top-selling supermarket tabloids in the U.S., announced that it would pay $105 million to buy the Globe, the third biggest. The deal would also give American Media ownership of other Globe titles, including the Sun and the National Examiner, putting nearly all of America's tabloid gossip under one corporate umbrella. This raises big journalistic issues: Are the heady days when the tabs fought for JonBenet Ramsey and Prince William exclusives about to end in polite...
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