Talk About Fake News - Been To A Grocery Store Checkout Aisle Lately?....

[global1]

Yesterday while waiting to check out at a grocery store I read some of the headline stories in the tabloids. Here are just two of the headlines:

1. Hillary, Bill & Chelsea Indicted

2. President Obama Has 55 Muslim Spies Working In His Administration

I'm paraphrasing these headlines as I don't recall the exact wording - but these stories are obviously fake - but are visible to everyone in line.

[malaise]

1. Saw the Hillary Bill one in Publix

in Miami on Saturday - my sister showed me

[applegrove]

2. Saw that. Then I thought it is not only the check out stand. It is everywhere

in the US. And Alberta.

[oasis]

3. Trump is the " good guy" in those shit tabloids. Deplorables eat that

stuff up.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. The owner of the tabloids is super right wing.

They have been posting horrible anti Hillary and anti Obama stuff for a long time.

[Cha]

5. I was at Long's awhile back..

"Hillary is corrupt, criminal, and whatever the bullshit was and Obama was going to pardon her."

This is what people with susceptible to brainwashing minds see and buy constantly.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. They love those stories because it reinforces what they want to believe.

[anniebelle]

7. I think anyone over the age of 14 knows these 'tabloids' are fake.

I'm troubled by 'supposedly real news' being broadcast on our publicly owned airwaves ~ tv and radio ~ by 'supposedly real journalists" being fed to the general public 24/7/365. I hear it when I'm shopping, when I go to my gym glass for 'old folks' (who are the absolute worst at being gullible and go on and on about their 'bible study' and their preacher who lets them know who to 'hate') who were brought up with 'real' journalists ~ Cronkite, Bill Moyers, Huntley/Brinkley, so you'd think they would know better. I do think that was a time when reporters/journalists were more apt to stick to reporting facts rather than sensationalism, for which our country seems to have an endless appetite. I'm not naïve enough (I'll be 72 December 19) to think 'all news' was unbiased, but I do think there was a hunger for truth by our citizens ~ no more! I am just sick for my country and my fellow human and non-humans that have to inhabit this planet with these Neanderthals. Just take a look at TLC (The Learning Channel, lol) to get a taste of what passes for reality in this country. Sick, sick, sick.

[Mike Nelson]

8. I've seen them...

...and comment to the clerk. Told CVS they should not carry the trash and said I would only come in to their store if absolutely necessary. Most local supermarkets do not display these fake anti-Hillary stories - but I am in Southern California, so that may be an influence.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Yup!

I saw those. I took a picture of one a few weeks back to show my husband. I'll have to look at again to see what it said. But, I did see the ones you posted and those are the actual headlines. Where are the stories about the Russian hacks? The shitty appointments? Oh, yeah, those papers are owned by people working for the current incoming president. That's how fucking scary shit is about to get; those "headlines" are about to become "fact."

[Bear Creek]

10. Every Week

During almost the entire election. Free advertisement for trump. Putting lie about Hillary up in bold print. It does matter, several people a day seen that crap regardless if you wanted to see it or not. Those need to be the ones under a black cover instead of Cosmo.

[ananda]

11. Wow

I don't usually pay that much attention.

But I will now. Next time I'm in line,
I'll take a look.

And I will say something to the checkers,
like -- do you realize how much fake news
you have on view -- and how dangerous it is?

I might even threaten to take my business
somewhere else.

[montana_hazeleyes]

12. Yep.

They were so obviously backing trump and vilifying Hillary and President Obama. Non stop. All kinds of fake sh!t constantly.

[safeinOhio]

13. Amazon's new supermarket

will be getting rid of the check out counters. Good news is it looks like the papers might go out of business with no one standing in line to look at them. Bad news, no more check out clerks, who will be in the unemployment line, along with those that work at those rags.
I think from now on when I'm stuck in line, I'm going to turn all of those papers around. Feel free to join me.

[Bear Creek]

14. Good idea

I usually put the Cosmo magazine black cover over to them.

[n2doc]

15. I will bet they never come to red state america

They will be in the cities and well to do suburbs. Not in bumfuck OH or KY. No money there, obviously.

If the concept is successful enough, Wal-mart will copy it and just convert their stores. And the papers will remain.

[TrishaJ]

16. I know one was from the National Enquirer, because

I saw the same headlines in the grocery store checkout in my neighborhood. We've always had fake news; but social media has raised it to a new level and allowed it to flourish. It's not hard for people to believe what they really want to believe when some "source" validates it.

[eShirl]

17. Tabloids used to be such good sources of accurate news, too.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Trump voters

read the second headline as '55 million' and think the number too low an estimate

[FarCenter]

19. About half the network 30 minutes and half the front page of major newspapers is accurate

Everything else is pretty dubious.

Even things so allegedly factual as corporate balance sheets are full of fantasy.

Anything about a politician beyond an eyewitness account, backed up by videos, of what he had for lunch is probably spin.

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Sad, isn't it? And tabloids used to have journalistic integrity...

[eppur_se_muova]

21. National Enquirer has gone rabidly far-right. They used to be just ridiculous and silly ...

... now they're so partisanly corrosive you can't just laugh at them anymore. They are spreading genuinely dangerous misinformation.

I hadn't seen NE in years, and was shocked to discover what a change there's been. Writing to our local grocery to let them know I don't want to be confronted by that trash in their checkout lines.

[LeftInTX]

22. That's a good idea..In my store they are prominently displayed before the entertainment tabloids

They are the first thing your eye catches before People, US Weekly, In Touch etc.