You seem to be forgetting about the reams of scandal stories that *are* ublished about journalists - see the kerfuffle over Rebekah Wade's domestic violence thing last year, for example. And that was in the tabloids. Now, you have to question whether it should have been in the tabloids because tabloids aren't *for* news. Not hard news, at any rate. Do the readers of the Sun really care about the domestic squabbles of the editrix of the News of the Screws? Almost certainly not -- other papers ran the story only as infighting. Tabloid readers buy tabloids because they contain things they want to read, i.e. not news. To criticise them for that is disingenuous to say the least. In short, you are way off base in your "journalists don't do journalism" jibe.