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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMillions Cancel Subscriptions to National Enquirer After Learning Its Stories May Not be True
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/millions-cancel-subscriptions-to?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2337656&post_id=143890114&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1xp0zk&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=emailAfter Donald J. Trumps hush money trial exposed the Enquirers inner workings, the newspapers reputation for unimpeachable journalism suffered a severe blow, media insiders say. Harland Dorrinson, an Enquirer subscriber for over thirty years, said discovering that the weekly periodical was not a dependable information source was a gut punch. In a complex and confusing world, I always felt that there was one news outlet that could make sense of it all, he said. Thats been stolen from me.
If the Enquirer distorted its coverage to support Trumps election in 2016, Dorrinson wondered, Does that mean Hillary Clinton wasnt really dying? Or that she didnt delete emails from her multiple lesbian lovers? Or that Bill Clinton didnt have a sex romp in a pickup truck that was caught on video? Now I dont know what to believe.
The longtime subscriber said that the Enquirers sudden loss of credibility would force him to seek reliable reporting elsewhere, adding, I guess Ill give Fox a shot.
no_hypocrisy
(46,430 posts)brought in an article from National Enquirer for current events. Our teacher used it as a teaching moment about false journalism.
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AllaN01Bear
(19,182 posts)Squaredeal
(410 posts)During recess, the custodians garage next door was normally packed with old newspapers that the church would sell when the price was high. We would read the Enquirer and Star. Even at that young age, I somehow knew that it was pornographic.
LeftInTX
(25,984 posts)55 years ago, I was in 7th grade. (I think..LOL)
I remember it being kinda "hidden" in the stores.
In 1967, I started hanging out at the newsstands while my mom grocery shopped. That's when I noticed the Enquirer. I don't remember it being in the checkouts until the 80s. As to how those tabloids become mainstream, I have no idea.
Tree Lady
(11,570 posts)I have memories of her reading it by the lake while we camped.
My parents were always stressed except vacation probably why I love the mountains so much, I see it as peace.
Dad would bring his beer, mom her wine and they had great time. We always met up with other family and friends.
Rocknation
(44,591 posts)"BOROWITZ!!!"
P.S. I hope his severance from Conde Nast/The New Yorker included the copyright to every word he wrote for them.
Rocknation
underpants
(183,256 posts)Weekly World News
SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)Every week, like clockwork, she'd bring the WWN home after she'd been grocery shopping.
I never asked if she believed the trash printed in there, but my sister and I would have great fun mocking the tall-tales printed within.
The Weekly World News made the stories in the Enquirer look positively factual. 🙄
underpants
(183,256 posts)I used to but WWN weekly. I guessed it was a joke or a parody. I read years ago that it was started by 2-3 actual newspaper guys (when newspapers were a daily staple) who saw these tabloids making money, so why not? Black and white too so it was cheaper. Covers with UFOs and BAT BOY ( which was based on some sort of real story).
SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)I don't know where the WWN was headquartered, I think maybe Miami? My Mom always wanted to go there, but she lived in Sebring, FL and she could never stand the 3 hr. drive down there. Anything over 1 hour in a car and she was a wreck, physically as well as mentally.
Now I'm about as old as she was at that time. 5 hours driving a day is my limit. Getting old is not for weaklings. 😉
mitch96
(13,964 posts)newspaper strike in NYC. Could not get your fav paper. My Mom made me buy the Nat Inq so she would have something to read. It was even obvious back then that the "paper" was a POS paper. I was embarrassed to buy it even at 13 years old...
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RainCaster
(10,996 posts)All I remember of the National Constipater is outrageous headlines and highly retouched photos of famous people in embarrassing poses. I have never considered them as reliable journalism. Ever.
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niyad
(114,324 posts)niyad
(114,324 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(12,611 posts)I just knew it was either the Onion or the Borowitz Report and lo and behold, I was right.
The National Enquirer printing false stories?
Say it ain't so.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,592 posts)It had to be one or the other, right?
alterfurz
(2,478 posts)If POTUS & Pecker Paid a Pack of Pissed Porn Performers, How Many Pissed Porn Performers Did POTUS & Pecker Pay?
CaptainTruth
(6,638 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,853 posts)DFW
(54,643 posts)They must belong to that select group of people who are just learning that water may be wet.
DoBW
(776 posts)He's now had his little Pecker and his little Johnson removed in public
lindysalsagal
(20,853 posts)usonian
(10,121 posts)so as not to see their lies blaring at me at the checkout.
OK, going outside to weed the carrot patch now.
Have a great day.
Thanks for the chuckle.
AllaN01Bear
(19,182 posts)LeftInTX
(25,984 posts)People, Time etc are now much more prominent. Tabloids are still there, but just not as prominent and visible.
Paladin
(28,307 posts)lpbk2713
(42,792 posts)Oh noes!
et tu
(1,041 posts)a jenni gray would be so awesome- more friends~
SupportSanity
(265 posts)Maybe it should be moved to the fiction section.
Emile
(23,478 posts)Borowitz Report lol.
gopiscrap
(23,770 posts)dchill
(38,680 posts)If it's in the National Enquirer, believe the opposite.
AllaN01Bear
(19,182 posts)this made my day. how many of u remember in the movie men in black the ne was the hot sheets ?
niyad
(114,324 posts)The best investigative journalism on the planet!
AllyCat
(16,305 posts)RainCaster
(10,996 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,360 posts)But I do recommend that these papers be taken off of store shelves, and consumers start ragging at the store managers to take these papers off the shelves. Make the NE earn their money the good ol' hard way, like most of us, instead of sitting in a busy retail location already waiting for shoppers to whiz on by, and its loud headlines catches shopper's eyes.
I don't like particularly that they participated in the catch and killing of stories, the suppression of possible evidence to a crime (or crimes). That's the part that really bugs me, that they killed stories obviously the behest of wealthy clients, tRUMP => Cohen => NE editor Pecker => kills sensitive stories about tRUMP AND makes up fake stories about Hillary Clinton, others and prints them. Truly malicious.
lindysalsagal
(20,853 posts)None of it is at the store's discretion.
ShazzieB
(16,765 posts)*I.e., the corporation that owns it
Martin68
(23,138 posts)Aristus
(66,636 posts)n/t
JoseBalow
(2,791 posts)GreenWave
(6,929 posts)Such truthful stories from the National Lampoon's parody of the Inquirer.
Identified Flying Objects spotted over airport!
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,402 posts)Ilsa
(61,722 posts)Where would we be as a civilization if we couldn't trust TNE for news???
pwb
(11,375 posts)and put it back backwards.
niyad
(114,324 posts)pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)Like they are just learning this?
msfiddlestix
(7,292 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,292 posts)niyad
(114,324 posts)just assumed it was either Borowitz or The Onion, just by the title.
Ligyron
(7,666 posts)People who read that kind of trash don't do subscriptions.
Dead giveaway right there.
They did used to put up a great Christmas Display, people came from miles around Sofla to see it. A whole village with animatronic reindeer and elves etc.
Don't hear much about it anymore, maybe the iguanas ate everything.
msfiddlestix
(7,292 posts)the point obviously missed, : the reader wants to be informed in the subject title, as an act of respect and courtesy.
niyad
(114,324 posts)satire, simply from the title.
niyad
(114,324 posts)that TITLES (as in, title of the article, post, etc, not the article itself and the link, if there is one) only have so many letters/spaces on this board, they are not endless. Perhaps you could take up your request with Admin if such labelling in the title bar is important to you.
And, one observes that no other posts in this thread seem to indicate that they are affected by the non-inclusion of your after-the-fact requested explication.
kimbutgar
(21,341 posts)Say dont believe everything you read there, it is was like a soap opera. He also used to read our two daily newspapers. He would buy them and pass them on to me. After he passed Id buy them in a store until I grew embarrassed buying them. I then subscribed to them. During the 2016 campaign I saw the slant and discontinued my subscription. I still got notices asking me to subscribe which promptly went into my recycle bin. I finally opened a notice and returned it by writing in big black letters remove me from your mailing list. Never got anymore notices.
Doc_Technical
(3,533 posts)The National Perspirer (satire of National Enquirer tabloid)
Who says Mad Magazine isn't educational?
KS Toronado
(17,631 posts)when the lady in front of me was bragging to the checkout clerk about the National Enquirer she was buying.
Looked at the rack... "Baby born with wooden leg", being fully aware of how baby cats, dogs, calfs, etc get
here I started laughing about it and the people behind me started laughing, the clerk joined in while I was
saying "an alien must have got to her" then someone added "No a tree got to her" First lady left mad.
Uncle Joe
(58,698 posts)Put them with the rest of the magazines.
Why should publications that specialize in spreading disinformation be given precedence in marketing to the American People?
Thanks for the thread lindysalsagal
ECL213
(222 posts)niyad
(114,324 posts)twodogsbarking
(10,082 posts)in the basement of the White House.
Barry Markson
(280 posts)Why did the prosecutor have Pecker up 1st and for 2 days on the stand?
If he had run with the Stormy Daniels story nobody would have believed it anyway and her subsequent accusations would have been dismissed as just more Bat Boy crap.
Sure hope Bragg had more sterling testimony than that.
I'm not impressed.
central scrutinizer
(11,691 posts)The person selling the story would be legally barred from selling to another publication.
Barry Markson
(280 posts)And who was trying to sell the story?
central scrutinizer
(11,691 posts)SYFROYH
(34,187 posts)Barry Markson
(280 posts)John Edwards ended with a hung jury and the government declined to re-file charges.
Mad_Machine76
(24,473 posts)wasn't a clue?
SYFROYH
(34,187 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,438 posts)it disturbs me a bit that they gave him immunity.
live love laugh
(13,276 posts)Anybody who didnt already know about this is beyond stupid.
ShazzieB
(16,765 posts)It's right there in the link, and in parentheses at the beginning of the article excerpt.
Aussie105
(5,571 posts)Quite an education for a 15 year old!
Haven't been the same since. lol
Bettie
(16,179 posts)The National Enquirer? That explains so much......
JohnnyRingo
(18,746 posts)He wrapped that up nicely.
Stinky The Clown
(67,869 posts)Watch out Fox. This would be YOUR demographic.