This is a last resort for tabloid writers and editors, however - they usually try to base their stories on a grain of truth.

And the central idea - that tabloid writers and editors casually make up their stories - has a timeliness that is a public-relations person's dream.

"A star's agent is usually a great source for dirt about his own client, especially if the client is on the way down," said one tabloid writer.

In the reconstruction of the crime, the scene in Seth Wilkinson's study was fully visualized; and the terse tabloid writers made good use of it.

Marie Brown, the heroine of this engaging, amusing first novel, is an aspiring tabloid writer and quondam graduate student in philosophy of science.

Reading it, they hit upon a scheme to take revenge on cruel tabloid writers in exchange for money from wealthy patrons.

And by now, the tabloid writers were switching their attention to other male members of the Neighbours cast, and hinting Kylie may be dating them too.

"Welcome to the Groom Lake Facility," he said dramatically, "better known to the tabloid writers as Area 51."

Hope Adams - half-demon and tabloid writer.

Good tabloid writers expand upon small news items that appear in the back pages of traditional newspapers.