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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:44 PM
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It just dawned on me why I know such much trashy news and other such
stuff that annoys the shit out of me for taking up precious brain k...

It's the fucking "magazines" that are positioned right at eye level at the check out lines at the supermarket...

Now my thinking is if they put the Mother Jones or The Economist or The Nation, the people would know a little bit more about what is actually going on.

But nooooo. I have to learn about the newest baby bump, (pssst, Reese Witherspoon is getting thick around the middle, I'm just sayin') the newest on Oprah, some old celebrity clinging to life, a cancer scare...Yada Yada Yada...
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:46 PM
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1. well, you don't have to take one and read it while holding up the checkout line... n/t
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:47 PM
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3. Lol.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:26 PM
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14. Well, you might want to....
nah, never mind...

It ain't worth it...
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:47 PM
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2. Those magazines are there for a reason...
It's all about selling.

And impulse buying.

Resist!

:hi:
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:48 PM
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4. There used to be a time when books were by the check out stands
and even a trashy romance novel requires more work than the Enquirer. That said. If the Enquirer breaks a political story... I've learned to pay attention to that.
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:52 PM
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7. The Weekly World News had better political news...
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:08 PM
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10. No seriously the Enquirer has a track record
and they fact check. Hartman was explaining why today. In fact, they mostly DO NOT do political stories, but when they do... (Edwards for example, they broke that one) pay attention.

On the tinfoil moment... that was one of the papers that got an anthrax gift..
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:49 PM
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5. Tabloid TV--more entertainment than news.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:50 PM
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6. Those positions are bought and paid for
I never notice them due to years of aggressively ignoring them.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:02 PM
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9. Indeed they are
I recall my days of working for bookstores. With those magazine racks if a title sold out we couldn't fill the spot with another magazine to avoid having an empty space because the publisher had paid for the placement. Sadly it's also the stuff that sells by and large. I'm still amazed at the drivel that's at the checkouts and I wonder how much of it's there because that's what people want and how much of it's there because that's what the publishers convince people that's what they want. Same with the stuff on the "bestseller" lists.
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RZM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:21 PM
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12. I worked at several bookstores in the downtown area of mid-sized metropolitan area
And it was rather disheartening to see what people bought. Books weren't popular at all . . . most of the sales were candy, magazines (mostly porn mags), and newspapers. Both are now closed.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:29 PM
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15. Well, your ignoring skills are much better than mine...
I gleemed all that info from shit being right at eye level with a slow person self checking themselves in front of me and three impatient people hovering right behind me so yea, I would have liked to remember the soliture part of Walden but it was hot, I was in my shorts and my O2 was running low...
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 09:56 PM
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8. They annoy me, too. Moron mags. I wonder who the hell buys them.
I've picked up the occasional Weekly World News or Enquirer trash for shits and giggles, but the other crap? When I was twenty, I did the Cosmo quizzes but that was it. Moron mags. Weapons of mass stupidity.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:11 PM
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11. When I was a TA the instructor that I worked for
loved them. She grew up with them. She had a PhD in nutrition and was not a dummy. I learned not to judge. She and her mother picked them every week and shared the gossip.

My brother's MIL picks up the equivalent in Mexico, has for years. She taught school for years. She likes the gossip for the Spanish Royal Family.

A sociology instructor of mine used to put it this way, some people want to live vicariously, or read distracting trash for the same reason they read a trashy romance novel. Incidentally romance is the largest market for trades.
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:25 PM
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13. Everything went straight to hell when Bat Boy lost his Senate seat.
:cry:
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:43 PM
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16. Poor Bat Boy...
I heard his head is mounted on the wall in Sarah Palin's living room...
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-15-11 10:46 PM
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17. I don't like thinking about what happened to the rest of him.
x(
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