They sift through garbage; they know the sexual habits of every politician they've ever met; they boast that they're the roughest, toughest scoop merchants in all the inky-fingered world of journalism. But now the truth can be told: at the prospect of the patter of tiny feet, reporters at the London tabloids roll over and go all gooey-eyed like an 8-year-old at the Poke-mon movie. That, at least, is how they behaved last week, when the news broke that Cherie Blair, the 45-year-old wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, was pregnant with her fourth child. "The Sun is simply DELIGHTED to hear that Cherie Blair is pregnant," opined the king of the tabs. "It is the BEST news we've heard for months. And we are so PROUD to have brought it to you first."
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