Comment Re:Where's the accountability? (Score 1) 644
Not quite.
The tabloids will usually say "our unnamed source who is close to Demi says that Demi is pining for Ashton."
So the facts of the story are about the story *as told by the source*, not the story in and of itself. If the source was incorrect, the story was still accurate, because they were merely quoting the source. This makes the tabloids extremely difficult to sue successfully, because you have to prove that the tabloids knew the sources information was false.