Bennett, Coleman & Co. continue to tabloidize the ToI. First this classy teaser atop the style section:

It’s actually not the subject I object to, tawdry as it is. It’s that they run random news of the weird from wire services without citing the basics — who, what, where, when, why, how. In what country did this happen? It’s like they’ve never taken a high school journalism class.

Then they run the skankiest photos of celebs possible, always wildly inappropriate for the blurb. Madonna adopts a boy whose family died of AIDS? They won’t run the photo of her in family court wearing glasses and a pantsuit with her hair pulled back. They’ll run an image from her photobook Sex. Kylie Minogue talks about surviving breast cancer? Run her kneeling in a micromini.

TOI = The Tabloid of India.