Poison Pen: The True Confessions of Two Tabloid Reporters

by David Lafontaine and Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu

This husband-and-wife tabloid reporting team, by their own account part of the vermin media, chased down headline stories for the Star, National Enquirer and the Globe and would do anything to get a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787109169
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Newstar Pr
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Terrific, Entertaining, Interesting Tabloid Book

Recommend this book for all tabloid fans, do not let its age discourage you. Extremely well written by a formerly married couple who wrote for competing tabloids. Far superior to "Secrets of a Tabloid Reporter" (which was written more recently yet depends on most stories from the 1970s). This is a much "meatier", thorough, and interesting book.

Interesting insider account of tabloid reporting

A husband-and-wife team (since divorced) of tabloid reporters recount their adventures. Breaking into a hospital for the first photos of Madonna's new baby, interviewing Dana Plato after her arrest, participating in a Gulf War-sized tabloid operation to infiltrate Liz Taylor's wedding. Names are named, and their book is lively and entertaining. Yet one senses the authors are being disingenuous, putting the best spin on their own motives and behavior, while hypocritically distancing themselves from past employers and coworkers. Another case of former tabloid writers biting the hand that fed them. Released in 1996.