The Enquirer broke the John Edwards love child story, after the MSM tried to cover up for Edwards. So, the answer is ‘no’ we can’t do better, the MSM standards are actually lower than those of the Enquirer.
The Enquirer was also the pub that made the Lewinsky scandal public, IIRC, or The Star.
The compliant MSM had tried to keep it under wraps.
That’s a good point.