He rejects the tabloids' suggestion that they depicted the sexualising of children.
But the rest – tabloid court frenzies, suggestions of non-biological incest, horrors in the attic – really does belong in some trash-soap netherworld, and there isn't enough blue jasmine in the world to mask the whiff.
Not that the message appears to have filtered through to the rest of the tabloid media: Some good suggestions as to what to do with my door-stepping journos.
The tabloids homed in on suggestions that the audience "felt [Ross] overstepped the mark", while failing to include Forsyth's comment that he absolutely loved it, or his line: "I've come here to be roasted and roasted I'm going to be".
Trump's suggestion originates with a tabloid, the National Enquirer, which had published photos it alleged showed Rafael Cruz next to Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated John F Kennedy.
There is a suggestion that it may do for 1970s tabloid journalism what Mad Men did for 1960s advertising.
But here's a radical suggestion: why don't all the newsboys, tabloid hacks and armchair producers and hyperventilating bloggers back off, and let art happen?
There have been suggestions that the internet is encouraging the tabloids, hampering the police and increasingly prejudicing trials, but has it really changed things?
From the outset, the director ratchets up the macabre violence, filling the soundtrack with shrieks of pain and the screen with elliptical suggestions of torture and capturing the action in images of tabloid aggressiveness.
Those charges centered on suggestions that The Sunday Times and The Sun, a Murdoch tabloid, used subterfuge to learn in 2006 that Mr. Brown's infant son, Fraser, had cystic fibrosis, a fact that generated a Sun scoop.
