Interesting point of view. So as long as a paper is "non-tabloid" it should be more trusted. A Chinese or Russian state owned non-tabloid is then more trustworthy than NYP? Propaganda is everywhere and the definition of what and when something is sensationalist is fuzzy.
What is the point of your comment? The author is stating that the mainstream view has been that tabloid papers sensationalise while broadsheets profess to not doing so. This is not their opinion, it is context for their argument that blocking a link to a tabloid would not be unusual for twitter considering the other links they have blocked in the past.
