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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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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Wonkette?
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Gawker does seem like the closest, management wasn't necessarily very left-wing but much of their gossip journalism was against folks who are enemies of progressive movements and ideas, and a lot of ex-Gawker writers are outright socialists these days
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Liberals don't like liberal versions of Fox News.
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Michael Musto?
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Buzzfeed is a bit of both I guess.
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the New York Post was liberal before Murdoch bought it, no? Definitely there's left-wing tabloids in Britain.
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Spy, maybe. Entertainment Weekly in the 90s.
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