scandal ridden media calls Natl Enquirer scndal-ridden. Beautiful.
Someone appears to be unclear on the concept. Isn't that their stock-in-trade? You call it a scandal, they call it great marketing!
Indeed big money is the only thing that keeps them from being sold.
Remember when CNN and WaPo had to pay Nick Sandmann millions for acting like shitty propagandizing filth? Does that qualify as scandal ridden?