Poison Pen: The True Confessions of Two Tabloid Reporters (Hardcover)

~ Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu (Author), David Lafontaine (Author)

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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 story. Here they reveal how they raced in a hot-air balloon to crash the Liz Taylor-Larry Fortensky wedding, how they rooted through garbage and empty hotel rooms for evidence of hanky-panky, and how they rushed to interview disaster victims and their families.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Audio Literature (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787109169
• ISBN-13: 978-0787109165
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,009,996 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting insider account of tabloid reporting, October 23, 2004

By	Thomas M. Sipos (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific, Entertaining, Interesting Tabloid Book, March 20, 2009

By	observer22 - See all my reviews

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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.