If only "Murdoch's rags" were doing this sort of thing, the media landscape would be a lot better than it is now.

Once you personal preferences because you happen to be ideologically aligned with a particular news source, I have a hard time seeing how pretty much any of the major mainstream media outlets is better or worse than any of the others. (Yes, this includes the New York Times, too.)

Ironically, I was just complaining on HN a couple of days ago about the near-death of investigative journalism and how when historians go to assign a date for that event it'll probably be in the past. So it's even more egregious in some ways than I think it initially sounds that these journalists dox'ed this guy... they don't seem to have the resources to do much truly investigative journalism nowadays, and this is what they spend those scant resources on! Why not just come out and tell us all that they're too afraid nowadays to do any investigative journalism on anyone with even a hint of power?

It was the Sun, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Only on of those belongs to Murdoch.

A better way to put it would be to say all of the UK tabloid papers (the Mirror was also mentioned in the article).

Tabloid journalism doesn't exactly have a stellar history of responsibility. Unfortunately this sells for some reason.

Is the Telegraph really a tabloid? It's hardly on the same scale as the others presented here (and in the article).

The Telegraph is a broadsheet, yes.

However, I've seen some rumblings on the Internet that it used to be high quality journalism, but lately it had been going more downmarket of late. This is "Internet opinion" of course, so I'm not sure what the real truth is. That being said, if they are engaging in tabloid-style stunts like this these day, this would sort of confirm what I've read.