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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The former National Enquirer's secret agreement with Donald Trump is shocking, even by the sensational standards of his former publication.

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker’s testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week revealed the underhanded tactics his publication used to defend the former president, flagrantly violating not only mainstream journalism ethics rules, but even the more lurid standards typical of tabloids like his. 

“I knew the National Enquirer was slimy, but I didn’t know they were this slimy,” said Kelly McBride, the senior vice president and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at the non-profit Poynter Institute. “It is so far outside the practice of journalism that it’s hard for me to even imagine that this was happening.” 

In testimony this week during Trump’s trial in New York City, the former CEO of National Enquirer’s former parent company explained in stunning detail how he agreed to act as “eyes and ears” for Trump’s campaign, purchasing the rights to stories in order to suppress them, and even outright fabricating negative stories about Trump’s opponents.

“I wanted to protect my company, I wanted to protect myself, and I also wanted to protect Donald Trump,” Pecker said about why he released a false public statement about his publication’s “catch and kill” agreement to purchase and bury Karen McDougal’s story about her alleged monthslong affair with Trump

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[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago

It’s so funny that the man who pushed the “fake news” narrative was in bed with the National Enquirer — a publication that’s literally the definition of fake news

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 4 months ago

Every accusation is an admission of guilt with this shit bag.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Erm, we all knew this. We said it time and time again. Now we are endlessly confirming what we knew while the GOP sit back let's the infighting continue.

This election is not being fought through the candidates. It's all about making the dems turn on themselves. Everyone refuses to wise up and instead gets more entrench.

Where are all the repubs? Where is the_donald?

I imagine they sit behind the scenes feeding red meat about Palestine and now the rest of us are just along for the ride.

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