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June 27, 2017 at 11:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Judd Legum: Trump was the ideal vehicle for TMZ to break into political coverage. A reality TV host and a creature of celebrity culture pursues the most powerful position in the world all while dishing out TMZ-friendly sound bites on a daily basis.
As Trump has risen, TMZ has quietly emerged as, arguably, the most important pro-Trump outlet in America. Fox News is the largest and best known, but its audience is older and already inclined to support Trump. Breitbart is the most aggressive and strident, but its connection to white nationalism limits its appeal. TMZ attracts a large and diverse audience precisely the folks Trump needed to reach to stitch together a winning coalition.
Stories on TMZ not only gain a wide audience online but also appear on two nationally syndicated daily television shows (TMZ and TMZ Live) that, in most markets, are aired multiple times each day.
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Kolesar
(31,182 posts)I guess I am in a "bubble".
underpants
(182,830 posts)Basically paparazzi
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)And read by people who still give a fuck about the Kardashians. It's tailor made for your average American snap chatting dullard (most of our population).
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)I could waste all day here.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't stand loud obnoxious people and it's like being in a room filled with them. And the narrator, or whatever you want to call him, is the most insufferable one of all of them. His voice and the way he speaks just makes me want to throw large heavy objects at the television.
I don't watch it on purpose, but I will often have the news on and then it will go into TMZ while I am doing something else. As soon as I realize it's on I either change the channel or turn it off.
haele
(12,660 posts)Originally a Time Warner/AOL entertainment news channel for the Hollywood/TV studio "business zone" (an approximate 30 sq. mile area).
Occasionally, in the past (on edit) they've done some decent journalism on social and labor issues (particularly those issues that affect "the industry" , but for the most part, they're competing more with E!News than they are with Rolling Stone.
I had to edit, because the last time I paid any attention to what went on in entertainment TV, it was mainly watching "The Soup" - and that was 6/7 years ago.
Haele
That's ham radio code for "thanks".
"Morse Code", although it is now called International Code
underpants
(182,830 posts)Which is more than ironic but not surprising
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)about nothing and stock red carpet footage of celebrities are shown over and over.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)There is a school of thought that he makes more money from what he does not publish than what he does. And he is rightly feared, a Hollywood J Edgar Hoover. There have been figures like this from time to time, Hush Hush Magazine and all that.
aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)I don't watch often, but it can be a funnier, paparazzi version of Entertainment Tonight.
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)eom
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I've only sampled that one program once in a while, the tawdry one with the guy whose wife was murdered years ago. Low class but I thought it was harmless.
I had no idea their content had become right wing.
Jon Stewart is badly missed. I'll always wonder how 2016 would have turned out if he were still active.