Enquirer and Star have had secret relationship w/GOP going back to Gennifer Flowers case in ‘92. The one that started everything with the Clintons.
I know.
I was there. @Shoq @crooksandliars @Green_Footballs @Karoli
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At first, Star was chasing after a circulation bump; Gary Hart cover was highest-selling tabloid EVER. But then, the relationship ... evolved. New owners had gone into severe debt to acquire; needed favors w the SEChttps://www.voanews.com/a/relationship-between-trump-enquirer-goes-beyond-headlines/4541126.html …
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This was the beginnings of The Pattern Of Plausible Rumormongering Deniability: GOP understood that "responsible" news outlets didn't want to get down in the gutter w/sex scandals; but they sure would pile on after someone else "broke the seal"
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This has evolved into current toxic media environment that is being used by Russian Hackers, etc.: seed rumors (more evil & outrageous the better) into low-barrier-to-entry media. Nurture these rumors w/coordinated coverage in friendly media
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Build rumors to the point where "responsible" media is "forced to address the rumors that are flying." My last chapter was called "Producing the Pig" because it was about the Hunter Thompson quotehttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/this-hunter-s-thompson-passage-is-particularly-poignant-in-light-of-that-david-cameron-and-the-pig-10510787.html …
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These days, the low-barrier media are everywhere; Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, 4chan, websites built to look like newspapers/TV. The
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Have you blogged all this anywhere? If not, you should.
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I guess I could just yank the last chapter out of the book https://www.amazon.com/Poison-Pen-Confessions-Tabloid-Reporters/dp/0787109169 … but there are a lot more recent AMI employees who have left in last year who are not shy about talking about how mags morphed into "The Kremlin"
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Wow ,,, I have alway’s enjoyed his news-paper as it is not fake news of the New York Times but much more gear toward us regular folks ( not a liberal)
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Absolutely, Water (Owen's Grandpa)! It's even got "National" right in the name, so you know it's for the whole country, not just those New York elite types.
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We all knew Trump's Pecker would bring him down, we just didn't think it would get immunity.
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I keep saying things can’t get any stranger. Every day.
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Stop. Saying. That.
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. I actually laughed out loud for real on that one. 
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When the movie is made about this and Pecker appears, people will say the writing was sloppy.
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"Come on you guys, you're going to call this character Pecker?! I want the whole 3rd act rewritten!"
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The movie of this administration needs to be a Rocky Horror type production That way every time his character shows up the audience can yell “pecker” until he is off camera again.
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Well that’s a tongue twister . Pecker &porn star puts President in a pickle
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...and perhaps prison.
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