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Do you ever wonder if mainstream news reporters sometimes try to send coded messages through their otherwise straight-laced articles?
What was going through Edward Kosner’s mind when he wrote, “Like people and anthrax spores, publications have their unique DNA,” in a story about Generoso Pope Jr., the mob and CIA connected founder of The National Enquirer???
You may remember that American Media Inc, the owner of the Enquirer, was targeted in the (false flag) anthrax attacks of 2001.
Like people and anthrax spores, publications have their unique DNA…
I was expecting to read something about the anthrax attacks and American Media Inc in the article, but he doesn’t go on to mention anything about the anthrax attacks.
Why not, “Like people and fruit flies,” or, “Like people and pond scum,” or…
Ahh, the sweet musk of Coincidence is thick on this one.
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Like people and anthrax spores, publications have their unique DNA. And, as it turns out, the Enquirer is still true in its fashion to the genetic heritage Generoso Pope Jr. endowed it with 55 years ago.
Pope was the oddball New Yorker who created the National Enquirer, the rag that gave the world headlines like “Mom Uses Son’s Face for an Ashtray” and sold 6.7 million copies in August 1977 with a sneaked cover photo of Elvis Presley laid out in his coffin at Graceland. Pope, who went to the Horace Mann prep school in New York and to MIT and worked in psy-ops for the CIA before starting the National Enquirer in 1952, is the subject of a respectful biography that argues that he belongs in the populist-press pantheon with William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.
Maybe not. Still, “The Godfather of Tabloid” is an engaging saga of one man’s obsessive devotion to creating an entertaining alternative universe each week for four or five million Americans clutching their quarters at the supermarket check-out racks (which he conveniently owned). Pope’s Boswell, Jack Vitek, a onetime newspaperman now a journalism professor, gives him a little too much of the dubious credit for the tabloid bent of much of American pop culture today. But it’s fair to say that the man who sold 6.3 million copies with the headline “Drinking Beer Prevents Heart Attacks” deserves his due.
Pope was certainly peculiar. His interest in journalism started early: Pope’s father, a gravel entrepreneur who was cozy with the Mafia, founded Il Progresso, the Italian-language daily in New York, and helped bankroll Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia. Casting around for something to do after MIT and the CIA, Pope borrowed money from mobster Frank Costello to relaunch the Enquirer, then a Gotham scandal broadsheet with a circulation of 17,000, as a national tabloid.
