National Enquirer
| National Enquirer | |
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| description | weekly American tabloid |
| language | English |
| publishing company | American Media ( United States ) |
| First edition | 1926 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Dylan Howard |
| Web link | The National Enquirer |
| ISSN |
1056-3482 |
The National Enquirer (often abbreviated: Enquirer , English for 'questioner') is an American magazine .
history
The tabloid magazine appears weekly with a circulation of around 240,000 copies. The magazine is published by the US company American Media . The first issue of the magazine was printed in 1926.
A German edition started in January 2016 and was discontinued in March of the same year.
In the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election campaign , the magazine fell into disrepute when it became known that it had bought up unpleasant stories about presidential candidate Donald Trump with exclusive contracts without publishing them. The aim of this method, known as " catch and kill ", was to prevent the stories from being spread publicly. National Enquirer publisher David Pecker has admitted that he did so with the story of the extramarital affair of businessman Trump with model Karen McDougal .
In February 2019, Jeff Bezos accused the magazine of extortion after it threatened to publish intimate personal pictures of him and an extramarital affair.
Web links
- The National Enquirer geoblocked, error: 403 is issued
- National Enquirer UK UK homepage
Notes and individual references
- ↑ The National Enquirer's Circulation Is Plummeting Statista.com, March 24, 2020
- ^ German National Enquirer: Off after six weeks instead of number 1 after six months meedia.de, March 11, 2016
- ↑ a b "National Enquirer": US tabloid apparently stored negative Trump stories in safe. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Frauke Steffens, New York: Trump and the Playmate: A gossip magazine as election workers . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 19, 2019]).
- ↑ Hush money payments: US publisher admits campaign support for Trump . In: Spiegel Online . December 13, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 19, 2019]).
- ↑ Jeff Bezos accuses scandal sheet of blackmail at faz.net, February 8, 2019
- ↑ spiegel.de February 10, 2019: Amazon crime