1.   And checkbook journalism has started to prevail.

2.   I bought him a Dr. Pepper from a vending machine, because I believe in checkbook journalism, and he told his story.

3.   Mainstream reporters may grumble about its checkbook journalism, laugh at its hyperbole, talk vaguely about inaccuracies.

4.   Most reputable news organizations, for instance, forbid checkbook journalism on the theory that it inevitably attracts questionable sources and unreliable information.

5.   O.J. makes tabloid media and checkbook journalism stronger than ever.

6.   The magazine would pay, but the checkbook journalism might be explained away as picking up some expenses, Walls says.

7.   Behind her, she left pro- and anti-abortionists in dispute for the third time this month and a debate raging over the ethics of so-called checkbook journalism.

8.   Nevertheless, checkbook journalism among British tabloids publishing reports of the royal family remains unchecked.

9.   Since the story broke at the weekend, politicians and commentators have charged that this is a new low in checkbook journalism, the practice of buying exclusive stories.