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The Tabloids Go All-In For Trump
« on: January 13, 2017, 05:43:17 pm »
 The Tabloids Go All-In For Trump

First Donald Trump got an endorsement from the tabloids. Now he’s getting a mouthpiece.

By Jack Shafer

January 13, 2017

The 2016 campaign hadn’t even begun when America’s supermarket tabloids picked their guy. “New Poll: Donald Trump’s The One!” the National Enquirer breathlessly announced in February 2015, long before the real estate developer was even a punchline in the political conversation.

As Trump’s unlikely run got underway that summer, the Enquirer kept rolling the drums, even publishing a September 2015 three-part series by Trump titled, imaginatively, “My Life Story.” Meanwhile, the tabloid treated Hillary Clinton’s White House dream as doomed from the start, the hope of a “desperate and deteriorating” candidate who, depending on which story you read, had only six months to live, or was headed to jail for covering up Vince Foster’s 1993 “murder,” or was going “behind bars for life” over her email scandal. The Enquirer accelerated in this new political direction as 2016 arrived, running a two-part soft interview with Trump and hammering his closest political rival, Ted Cruz, as a philanderer whose father was “linked” to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Re: The Tabloids Go All-In For Trump
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2017, 07:39:05 pm »
Say what you want about him. Trump figured out how to reach out to the low information voter.
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Re: The Tabloids Go All-In For Trump
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2017, 08:29:37 pm »
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In another era, Trump’s history of tomcatting, unscrupulous business dealings and grandiose tastes would have made him a perfect tabloid villain. But in that era, all the tabs would not have been owned by one person, who happened to be a friend of Trump. That person is David Pecker, CEO of American Media, the New York-based publisher that owns the Enquirer, the other tabloids and Radaronline, its Web tabloid.
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Re: The Tabloids Go All-In For Trump
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2017, 08:58:59 pm »
Quote from: Idaho_Cowboy on January 13, 2017, 07:39:05 pm
Say what you want about him. Trump figured out how to reach out to the low information voter.

Yeah....such a shame not everybody carries your profound intellect.    :whistle:
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