1. The Bezos/National Enquirer business is a reminder that there has been a longstanding affinity between authoritarian politics and gossip mongering tabloids, going back at least a century to William Randolph Hearst.
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7. Beyond Hearst, we see this fusion of tabloids with the right again and again: think of Page 6 & the New York Post or the broader journalistic practices of our latest William Randolph Hearst: Rupert Murdoch.
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8. Conversely: has there ever been a left-wing tabloid or gossip columnist? I suppose Winchell had a New Deal period but he turned hard right. Maybe Drew Pearson? Maybe Gawker? Some examples, but not a lot.
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9. Trump himself was a pure product of this fusion of right-wing politics with tabloid culture. Much of his early fame came from his ability to dominate the headlines of the New York papers & the mentorship of Roy Cohn taught him the value of chits & compromising info.
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10. I have a longer think piece here about the connections between weaponized gossip, Trumpism, and right-wing politics:https://newrepublic.com/article/143688/donald-trump-weaponization-gossip …
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Plus, he'd never have cared about a sled.
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I do not believe that Trump has ever watched Citizen Kane and only likes it because it is the "best movie of all time"
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I am with you. But I think he someone told him that was the proper one for him to say he liked for the 2002 Oscars and he went along with it.
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"If you could give Charles Foster Kane advice, what would you say to him?" "Get yourself a different woman." And the scary part is, he was right. He replaced his Susan (Marla) with a woman who would look the other way, and it made all the difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeQOJZ-QzBk …
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I've said this before but I don't believe for a second that Trump has ever seen Citizen Kane.
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I really have a hard time believing, of all the possibilities, Citizen Kane is Trump’s favorite movie. I need some serious evidence.
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