Somewhere along the 2008 economic episode, a lot of working-class people had to go and make decisions about purchase priorities, and magazines-in-general....all saw a drop in purchases at the grocery shelves.
A year down the line, when some better economic numbers begin to appear, it didn't matter because people had gotten 'out' of the habit of buying things at the check-out line.
It wasn't just the Enquirer that went 'south'....most all of these gossip magazines suffered the same fate.
So it doesn't surprise me this week, when the National Enquirer sold for roughly $100 million. The odds of the magazine going to an anti-Trump slant? One might go and suggest that it'll happen, and readers/subscriptions will drop another third over the next two years. Someone might have the pockets to waste the publication, and just go for broke. But the thing is....who now reads it? It's lost it's thrills, and it might be worthless in four years.
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