The thing to understand about the National Enquirer...

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Tommy Carcetti (43,172 posts)

The thing to understand about the National Enquirer...
…is you didn’t have to buy it to read it.

You didn’t even have to consider buying it to read it.

All you had to do was stand in the grocery store checkout aisle and there it was, with pictures and big headlines promising huge exclusive stories.

So even if you were just standing there, the chances it might subliminally affect you are notable.

Hillary Clinton, a crook?

Hillary Clinton, deathly ill?

Donald Trump, the victim of a set up?

All of these things could be communicated without even an actual word being said.

And given the margin in the swing states in 2016, the subliminal impact of tabloid headlines on possible voters was much more substantial than you or I might want to admit.

ON EDIT: What Trump sought to use the Enquirer for as free advertising and disinformation was the same as what the Russians did for him with social media. Two different types of media but same intended result.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218889602

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Tommy Carcetti (43,172 posts)

The thing to understand about the National Enquirer...
…is you didn’t have to buy it to read it. you can steal it

You didn’t even have to consider buying it to read it. you just put your hand on the cover and absorb it

All you had to do was stand in the grocery store checkout aisle and there it was, with pictures and big headlines promising huge exclusive stories.

So even if you were just standing there, the chances it might subliminally affect you are notable.

Hillary Clinton, a crook?  most definitely and a liar.

Hillary Clinton, deathly ill? we should be so lucky

Donald Trump, the victim of a set up? most definitely, the left is deathly afraid he will get elected again and spoil their plans to destroy America 

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The thing to understand about the National Enquirer is that whatever help it may have given Trump doesn't begin to rival what other media outlets do to help democrats, explicitly, implicitly, "subliminally", or by whatever method you care to name.