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was charged with disobeying traffic signs in Keokuk County, Iowa. While trying to locate a man in an investigation, Wellman ignored the directions of a construction crew to drive along the shoulder of the road and instead circumvented barricades and continued to drive on the pavement. Minutes later, he drove his car into six inches of freshly poured cement set out to resurface the road, resulting in a $70,000 expense to the state.
--The North Carolina legislature recently voted to spend $170,000 for a Swine Odor Task Force, whose members will report back in 1995 with recommendations on reducing the smell of pig farms. A task force paper rejected making measurements by machine, claiming "the human nose is the primary element in most attempts to gauge odor."
-In October, for the second time, the Air Force revealed that an $18 million F-16 fighter plane had crashed because the pilot was unable to control the aircraft while using his "piddle pack" during in-flight urination. The previous F-16 crash was in March 1991. Both pilots ejected safely.
THE WEIRDOAMERICAN COMMUNITY
-Diana Brook Smith 37, who pleaded guilty in the death of a man in 1990 in Kinsey, Ala., was charged in December with tampering with the man's grave. Allegedly, she had started to dig up the casket in order to open it and prove that the man was not really dead.
LEAST COMPETENT PERSON
--In Labouchere Bay, Alaska, in November, Cairl Cothren, 50, accidentally shot himself in the shoulder with the shotgun he was holding beneath his knees in the cab of a truck when he leaned over to spit tobacco juice into a can on the floor.
LEAST JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
'Checkbook journalism' topic of film
Jacqueline Clinton, 29, was found guilty of manslaughter in Toledo, Ohio, in January intheshooting of her boyfriend. According to her, the shooting occurred during an argument over differing interpretations of the Bible.
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Despite the title, Michael Jackson is not at the heart of the documentary "Tabloid Truth: The Michael Jackson Scandal."
The film, airing on PBS "Frontline" series, uses the Jackson case to reveal the workings of tabloid journalism and its impact on mainstream media.
The issue of checkbook journalism — the tabloid's practice of paying for news — is key in "Tabloid Truth," said producer Thomas Lennon.
"If the film has a governing idea, it's probably that when every story is bought and sold, what you find is that you're not completely sure of any information," Lennon said.
"Tableloid Truth" starts with the frenzied rush last November to uncover details of a police raid on Jackson's Encino home and claims of child sexual abuse.
Lennon and reporter Richard Ben Cramer were poised to track British and U.S. reporters and get the story-behind-getting-the-Jackson-story.
In January, Jackson's attorneys agreed to an undisclosed - reportedly multimillion-dollar - settlement of a civil suit brought by the boy, now 14, who alleged that the performer molested him.
They were alert, said Lennon, because the documentary had been proposed to PBS before the Jackson case broke. The idea of using a major story to examine the growing influence of tabloid reporting was born out of another high-profile case, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial in 1991.
Lennon suggested to "Frontline" executive producer David Fanning that they wait for the next big media frenzy and jump on it.
"But let's not film what everyone else is filming," he told Fanning, "let's film the people who are chasing the story."
The filmmakers documented how tabloid reporters bounded ahead of the traditional press on the story by using paid sources, an existing network of informants and skills honed by years of digging for celebrity dirt.
The Jackson story broke within days, clearly offering all the elements "for the full orgy of press coverage to occur: it's celebrity, it's sex, it's children, it's crime, it's everything," Lennon said.
"We wanted to show the chase at work," Lemon said. "How efficient it is, how rapid it is, how brutally tough it is.
"One thing you can say about money
journalism is it gets the information flowing fast so within two days, basically, the outline of the facts was out."
In ensuing days, as people attracted by the scent of cash offer their stories, information becomes less trustworthy, Lennon said.
Practitioners of such reporting are unapologetic.
"Anybody who doesn't pay money, it's like cavalry running into machine-gun fire. It's anachronistic," Stewart White, a writer for the British weekly News of the World, said in the film.
The tabloids can pull mainstream news organizations along on their wild ride.
A clip in "Tablaid Truth" shows the Jackson story leading an edition of the "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw." That same night, Lennon said, there were developments concerning U.S. troops deployed in Somalia.
"I ran into lots of friends on this story, people who care a lot about what they do and who were very ambivalent about chasing this story," he says.
Letting the tablebolds set the news agenda is a matter of concern for the mainstream media, said Lennon, who worked for ABC for nearly nine years.
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