Traditional journalism requires reporters to blend into the background so their very presence doesn't alter the events they cover. "Tabloid Wars," though it doesn't come right out and say it, raises old but important issues of where to draw the line between what readers want and what a conscientious newspaper should give them. In the case of the Daily News and rival New York Post, the marching orders are to sell papers with stories that scream for attention.

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