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Maybe the stories were false and they didn’t want to publish them accordingly?

Not sure what articles you refer to but deciding not to publish something isn’t always bad.

"catch and kill" is the practice of buying the stories just so nobody else can publish them. It's not an honest practice.

Looks like I was conflating them with another tabloid though:

vs

They still went _way_ out of their way to help Trump win though.