Seems not much has changed where the media (tabloids mostly) would chase dollars or GBPs (I actually googled that).

Unbelievably, proof that not all publicity is good publicity, for the primary characters.

Now the media chases those same stories or worse for pennies. Let's see adjusting for inflation, maybe trashy stories today are about .001¢ per word?

So I was a teenie bopper when this was going on, thank you, it's nice of someone to keep us up on the history that was all around us being created back in the day.