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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      2. Hearst of course was accused of "yellow journalism" from the start, but the political salience of that journalism changed. His early sensationalism was in the service of left populism (he was one of few newspaper owners to support Bryan).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      3. The early "yellow journalism" of Hearst was really socially conscience muckraking -- i.e. accounts of exploitation. That changed when Hearst started to move to the right in the 1920s and 1930s & his tabloids then fanned moral panics about sex & drugs.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      4. The Hearst papers and other right-wing outlets (notable Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News) found that reactionary politics & gossip could go hand in hand, with writers like Walter Winchell, Louisa Parsons, and Hedda Hopper regularly smearing the left.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      5. If you think about it, gossip is a naturally conservative social force: you tell tales about people who break conventions. In the midcentury tabloid press, that meant gossip about movie stars that were communists, leftwing, gay or otherwise unconventional.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Kyle LeRoy

      6. This is a good point.https://twitter.com/KyleLeRoy/status/1093710727767121920 …

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      Kyle LeRoy @KyleLeRoy
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      There has to be something here about Hearst being the basis for Citizen Kane and that being Trump’s favorite movie and basically running his campaign against Hilary the same way Kane ran against his opponent except nobody cared about Trump’s sex scandal
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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

      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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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 7 Feb 2019

          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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        1. David Leheny‏ @David_Leheny 7 Feb 2019
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          All of this was less important in the great film adaptation, but James Ellroy’s novel “L.A. Confidential” was all over this stuff.

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        1. Inquisitive‏ @DoesItHurtToAsk 7 Feb 2019
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          Yeah and the rest is history @maggieNYT

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        1. Mike Staresinic‏ @MikeStaresinic 7 Feb 2019
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          yep, trump is the mealy marinara in this spoiled spaghetti bowl

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