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This week, as the media explored the unholy alliance between politics and sensationalist right-wing journalism, I took it on as my civic responsibility to consume bottom-of-the-barrel tabloids.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the former Playboy model Karen McDougal settled her lawsuit against American Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of an array of tawdry tabloids. To recap for those of you who follow neither tabloids nor broadsheets, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the National Enquirer <\/i>bought the exclusive rights to McDougal\u2019s story of her affair with Trump, then buried it to protect him. (Trump is a personal friend of the company\u2019s CEO.)<\/p>\n

Another of this week\u2019s news events: Maggie Haberman, a veteran of the New York tabloids and a current White House correspondent for the Times, <\/em>won a Pulitzer for her coverage of the president. \u201cIt\u2019s no coincidence,\u201d her colleague Glenn Thrush wrote during the campaign, \u201cthat one of the best reporters covering the president-elect this cycle happens to be the one who best understands the tabloid-Trump nexus.\u201d While the New York tabloids and AMI\u2019s supermarket rags are of different journalistic quality, Trump is a president both packaged for and propelled by sensationalist coverage. In recognition of that\u2014and in honor of Haberman\u2019s Pulitzer and McDougal\u2019s new freedom to tell her story\u2014I went to Rite Aid (welcome to the Trump era, when Rite Aid is my bookstore) and bought the current issues of three of AMI\u2019s most popular publications.\u00a0I\u2019ll walk you through their insights now\u2014for, you know, civic reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Globe<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Despite its focus on politics and culture, Globe <\/em>is the most prurient of the AMI tabloids. Picking up this week\u2019s issue, I quickly learn that Cate Blanchett and Sandra Bullock had a \u201cpenis facial\u201d (which is actually just a spa treatment that, per Blanchett, \u201csmells like sperm\u201d). I also learn that a factor in Scary Spice\u2019s custody battle is whether she, as her ex-husband alleges, tried to urinate on their furniture in front of their children. I\u2019m frankly disgusted\u2014Scary Spice should use her genius to be original rather than copy the president\u2019s greatest hits.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to locate serious news, I turn to the cover story about Michelle Obama\u2019s forthcoming book, which is apparently \u201cset to expose cheating & dirty tricks with crooked Clintons.\u201d I assumed from the headline that the \u201ccheating\u201d was political, but I\u2019m incorrect\u2014according to the article, Obama\u2019s book will focus on her husband\u2019s serial infidelities and \u201ctheir dismal sex life,\u201d which is somehow Hillary\u2019s fault. Globe<\/em>\u2019s accusations against the former president include: having \u201cthe nerve to take selfies\u201d with the \u201cattractive blond prime minister of Denmark\u201d and smiling excessively at the actress Gabrielle Union. \u201cPolitical insiders,\u201d\u00a0Globe <\/em>warns, \u201care already quaking in their boots.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Obamas mired in marital strife, Globe <\/em>turns to the current president, Donald J. Trump, who is engaged in a far more serious pursuit: fighting a secret war against Russia to \u201cpunish Kremlin kingpin Vladimir Putin for meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections!\u201d According to the article, this secret was kept secret until now because Putin and Trump feared that publicizing their strife would only escalate the conflict. This makes sense as both men are known for their restraint.<\/p>\n

As usual, the Globe <\/em>saves its worst for Hillary Clinton. Despite her heretofore undisclosed battles with \u201cbrain cancer, alcoholism, and cerebral blood clots\u201d (which have led the \u201cdouble-dealing Democrat\u201d to face \u201cher final days\u201d), she is still in need of a good public shaming. This time, it\u2019s the audacity of planning her own funeral! Since she \u201cdoesn\u2019t trust her straying husband\u201d to plan \u201cthe send-off she is convinced she deserves,\u201d Hillary is arranging an elaborate funeral for herself at Arlington Cemetery\u2014one that mirrors the slain President Kennedy\u2019s. All this glory is \u201cdespite her poor showing in the presidential election,\u201d which, as readers of other news may remember, she technically won by three million votes. Nonetheless, Hillary needs to \u201cget over herself!\u201d<\/p>\n

I should digress briefly to note that AMI tabloids are rigorously fact-checked by a team of lawyers who ensure that the magazine\u2019s language doesn\u2019t create libel exposure\u2014so you can take these stories as legally \u201ctrue,\u201d if not factually so.<\/p>\n

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National Enquirer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Among many splashy stories in this week\u2019s Enquirer, <\/em>the two most boring are: Martha Stewart is furious that her luggage was lost on a nightmare trip to Sweden, and Olivia Wilde was flustered that a man working the gate at a Hollywood studio didn\u2019t recognize her. With that out of the way, we can move on to the greatest hits: O.J. hired contract killers from prison, a handwriting expert confirmed the identity of JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey\u2019s killer, and Priscilla Presley wants to retrieve Elvis\u2019s diamonds and jewels that she gave to \u201cmen she bedded after his death.\u201d If that isn\u2019t spooky enough, this issue also exposes the chilling fact that the toothpaste I use\u2014Sensodyne Pronamel\u2014is only \u201cas effective as spit.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Enquirer<\/em>\u2019s tips for \u201cHow to Succeed Like Donald Trump,\u201d readers are instructed to \u201cBrighten Your Smile,\u201d since \u201cTrump\u2019s super white teeth are like tiny strobe lights that draw attention to his mouth\u2014and his message.\u201d I\u2019m tempted to write this off, but then I remember the rigorous fact-checking process. Since the lawyers find it legally defensible to call the president successful, perhaps upgrading my toothpaste might actually reap professional rewards?<\/p>\n

One Trump success tip that I absolutely agree with is to \u201cAccept Change.\u201d Flexibility is an asset in these turbulent times! \u201cMost of Trump\u2019s casino management team,\u201d the article explains, \u201cperished in a freak 1989 helicopter crash. This taught him how to deal with staff shake-ups.\u201d This was very enlightening to me. I used to believe that Trump systematically pushed out members of his staff through virtuosic passive aggression and paranoia, but now I know he\u2019s merely rehearsing old traumas, which is a key to management success!\u00a0I move on to a sidebar, in which the magazine urges Roseanne Barr to run for elected office.<\/p>\n

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National Examiner<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Examiner <\/em>is, far and away, my favorite of the supermarket tabloids. Aimed at an older audience, it is mystical and pure of heart. This week\u2019s issue opens with a nostalgic feature about production secrets from Elia Kazan\u2019s 1954 film On the Waterfront<\/em>\u00a0and later reveals that Betty White, like Hillary Clinton, is planning her own funeral (trend alert). While Hillary was berated for her hubris, the kind and gentle Examiner <\/em>merely calls Betty White \u201chard-working.\u201d<\/p>\n

I learn truly useful facts from this week\u2019s issue: you can tell if an egg is fresh enough for poaching if it floats in water, an hour soak in a hot bath burns as many calories as a half-hour walk, and you can reduce\u00a0a bruise’s color\u00a0by elevating it above your heart. In regards to my boyfriend\u2019s difficult mother, the Examiner<\/em> encourages me to \u201cgush about her son! Praise her astounding mothering that made him so wonderful. That way, she has no time to criticize you!\u201d I find myself tempted to buy one of the Examiner<\/em>\u2019s featured products\u2014a DVD set of the third season of Lily Tomlin\u2019s Laugh-In\u2014<\/em>but I haven\u2019t owned a DVD player in years.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest: I have little connection to the articles about bygone stars whose heydays even my parents don\u2019t remember. For me, the draw of the Examiner <\/em>is the dubious therapeutic advice. I relish Dear Tony, an advice column from \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top Psychic Healer,\u201d which juxtaposes vague, New Age optimism with catty swipes at the letter writer. \u201cI see rainbows,\u201d he tells two separate readers about their financial and romantic futures. But when a woman named Shirley asks whether her son and daughter will ever stop hating each other and \u201cdecide to be nice to me,\u201d Tony responds, \u201cYou give me nothing to work with. Dates of birth would have been a great help.\u201d Then, he twists the knife: \u201cWe know what is the effect,\u201d he says. \u201cAre you the cause?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s dream interpretation. \u201cEurope\u2019s prestigious Dr. Marcus Webber,\u201d the Examiner <\/em>crows, \u201cis bringing his amazing expertise to America.\u201d He does this, apparently, by putting the most positive spin possible on readers\u2019 fraught and eerie dreams. A woman writes in. She is married to her third husband but cannot stop thinking of her second husband, who cheated forty years ago and then left her to marry his mistress. In her dreams, he comes back, and she plans their remarriage, but when she arrives at her own wedding, he always marries his mistress instead. To me, this dream seems troublingly naked, but not to Dr. Marcus Webber. \u201cTo dream that you are getting married to your ex,\u201d he writes, \u201csuggests that you have accepted aspects of that relationship and learned from those past mistakes.\u201d Newly skeptical, I google Dr. Marcus Webber\u2019s credentials and find that he has no online footprint. Or did Marcus Webber of Morgan Stanley\u2019s London office decline to tell LinkedIn that he moonlights as a dream interpreter? This seems likely since they\u2019ve already told us that the doctor is European.<\/p>\n

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The Classifieds<\/strong><\/p>\n

After reading all three of these AMI papers, I\u2019m tempted to take a sleeping pill and temporarily remove myself from the world. Perhaps I\u2019d dream something wild for Dr. Marcus Webber. But I would be remiss to sign off without mentioning my two favorite sections: the personal ads (euphemistically called the \u201cFriendship Club\u201d) and the classifieds. In these sections, whose listings are nearly identical across all three magazines, readers\u2019 desires and emotions are palpable. It\u2019s the most humane\u2014and the most troubling\u2014writing I\u2019ve read in a long time.<\/p>\n

The classifieds list a psychic from San Francisco who can bring back a lover in one day, a service that mints new identities through sham documents, and an ad that reads simply, DON\u2019T TELL ME! I\u2019LL TELL YOU!\u2014<\/small>an oblique promise that callers will be understood without needing to explain. The Friendship Club is both odd and earnest\u2014widows and widowers seek new love, inmates look for connection (\u201cSomeone non-judgmental. Could really use a friend.\u201d), and a seventy-five-year-old man in Reno (who \u201cbelieves that no civilian should be allowed to have a killing machine, like the AR-15\u201d) wants a woman to watch old movies with. Many of the ads specify that the respondent should be white. One exception is the white man looking for a relationship with a \u201cMohawk Indian woman who upholds the Indian tradition.\u201d The following ad is simply perplexing: \u201cAttractive middle aged WM [white man] wants a friendship with a younger woman that does not get along with other women.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve felt a lot of despair lately. Checking the news or scrolling through Twitter makes me feel besieged and alone. Perhaps, in this, I have something in common with the lonely hearts in the personal pages. But for me, this isn\u2019t about connection. It\u2019s an evasive\u2014and even condescending\u2014clich\u00e9 to point to the pathos of struggling Trump voters, as though they\u2019ve made an errant, emotional choice rather than a damaging, rational one. Reading these magazines was not particularly heartening. But I can say at least this: if the Scary Spice pee tape leaks, I think the public\u2019s curiosity will transcend even the most entrenched political divides.<\/p>\n

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Sylvie\u00a0<\/span>McNamara lives in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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