Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer (2019)

Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer: Directed by Mark Landsman. With Ken Auletta, Malcolm Balfour, Carl Bernstein, Tony Brenna. ‘Scandalous’ is the sensational true story of The National Enquirer, the infamous tabloid with a prescient grasp of its readers’ darkest curiosities.

“Ok so I see some people trashing the doc for trashing Trump. Ignore them.nThose people have issues with reality. I feel everything in this doc is accurate. It is very well made, informative and entertaining. I learned many things from it. My issue with this documentary is that it softened the history of the rag known as the National Enquirer before Davis Pecker in order to make the post-Pecker changes more dramatic. Now it is true that the paper got extremely partisan. It is true it created the so-called catch and release tactic. It sold its soul to the devil with the comb over, so to speak. But it really downplays what an awful, lying, irresponsible piece of junk it had been in the 70u0026#39;s and 80u0026#39;s and even the 90u0026#39;s during it supposed u0026quot;good period.u0026quot; No discussion here of all the crazy UFO stuff and made up nonsense and the lies and distortions. Anyone with a mediocre, or higher, I.Q. routinely laughed at the clearly false headlines you saw while checking out at the supermarket. You grew up knowing that and everyone talked about it for decades, scoffing at and laughing at the pathetic newspaper. I wish this documentary was harsher on the paper but instead had interview after interview of people justifying or glossing over the irresponsible things they were doing. I still recommend it.”