Lanford tells Anne Strainchamps that the internet is the perfect medium for swindling people, describes several successful scams, and offers advice on how to protect yourself. A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact. He tells Jim Fleming that the mainstream press now covers a lot of stuff that used to be the exclusive beat of the tabloids and gives some hilarious examples of how tabloid stories get written. Neal Bowers was a poet - until a man named David Sumner Jones began to publish many of Bowers' poems as his own. Bowers tried to put a stop to it, and found that most editors didn't really care that they'd published plagiarized work.
Bowers now writes novels.
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