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Photo Gallery: A History of the National Enquirer
A guided tour through the National Enquirer's checkered history.
America's premier scandal sheet occupies a strange place in our media landscape. The National Enquirer doesn't compete with newspapers like The New York Times or newsweeklies like Time or NEWSWEEK, but with celebrity magazines like People, Us Weekly and OK! It uses methods scorned by the mainstream media--rifling through trash cans, stalking subjects and, most of all, paying for information. Yet the Enquirer lands too many big scoops for the mainstream media to ignore--or, more accurately, that they ignore at their peril. (The Enquirer broke the news of John Edwards's affair with a former campaign aide months before his televised mea culpa.) Keep clicking for a photographic tour through the paper's varied history-from its blood-and-gore roots in the late 1950s, through its reinvention as a purveyor of gee-whiz journalism in the '70s, to today's celebrity scandal.
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Posted By: mass8bob @ 09/26/2008 11:28:31 PM
Comment: Yes, tabloid and many 'skin' magazines and other socially destructive publications are not only in the offices of our 'professional' offices, but on the magazine tables in our homes, at all economic and social levels because they are mailed [in many instances] free to people who would not admit to, or desire to PAY for such visual images where children and others who can be damaged by some of these very publications, may chance to wander. Sorry about that, mabob
Posted By: marianconn @ 09/26/2008 9:08:55 AM
Comment: I love the tabloids....! I own a beauty/barber shop and have tabloids all over the place. Everyone loves them, yet they feel the need to explain that they wouldn't buy trash like that....Yet they watch 'neteork (news)' on television through hundreds of commercials.