checkbook journalism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Pecker described his business as "checkbook journalism" and agreed with Colangelo that he traffics in "juicy stories."
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024
Pecker confirmed that the National Enquirer “used checkbook journalism, and we paid for stories.”
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2024
“His stories were kind of mind-blowing: stories of checkbook journalism, unconventional sourcing, bribes, disguises, espionage and all kinds of scurrilous tactics,” Landsman recalled.
From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2019
Other media organizations, he added, “only get into trouble over checkbook journalism because they’re so preoccupied with respectability — and they contort themselves.”
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2010
The Boston Globe blasted that as "checkbook journalism."
From Time Magazine Archive
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