National Enquirer was almost always celebrity gossip or famous people news.

It wasn’t always.


From wiki:


In the late 1950s and through most of the 1960s, the publication was known for its gory and unsettling headlines and stories such as: "I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped on It" (September 8, 1963) and "Mom Boiled Her Baby and Ate Her" (1962).

Toward the back of the rag.

My cousin was a big fan until I pointed out some of their less-than-honest tactics. Like how so many of the crazy stories took place overseas, where--at the time (mid-80s)--it was difficult for Americans to verify the stories. Alien abduction from an isolated village in Peru or Scotland, for instance. Someone in Timbuktu eating his grandmother. That sort of thing.

Our uncle, a major investor in films, also had a chat with her about the made up stories, plus how the celebrity scoops weren't scoops, usually, but stories outright fed to NE to promote an agenda. Actors would give them supposed 'inside' info to promote themselves, or to get revenge on a hated fellow celebrity. Directors, producers and network or studio executives would drop stories to warn actors that their patience for certain bad behaviours had worn thin. The usual manipulation and rot.