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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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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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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Yeah and the rest is history
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yep, trump is the mealy marinara in this spoiled spaghetti bowl
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