National Enquirer Takes A Hit In Circulation
Source: Talking Points Memo/AP
By JEFF HORWITZ,
August 30, 2018 6:59 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Enquirer has long explained its support for Donald Trump as a business decision based on the president’s popularity among its readers. But private financial documents and circulation figures obtained by The Associated Press show that the tabloid’s business was declining even as it published stories attacking Trump’s political foes and, prosecutors claim, helped suppress stories about his alleged sexual affairs.
The Enquirer’s privately held parent company, American Media Inc., lost $72 million for the year ending in March, the records obtained by the AP show. And despite AMI chairman David Pecker’s claims that the Enquirer’s heavy focus on Trump sells magazines, the documents show that the Enquirer’s average weekly circulation fell by 18 percent to 265,000 in its 2018 fiscal year from the same period the year before — the greatest percentage loss of any AMI-owned publication. The slide follows the Enquirer’s 15 percent circulation loss for the previous 12 months, a span that included the presidential election.
More broadly, the documents obtained by the AP show that American Media isn’t making enough money to cover the interest accruing on its $882 million in long-term debt and that the company expects “continued declines in circulation and advertising revenues” in the current year. That leaves AMI reliant on debt to keep its operations afloat and finance a string of recent acquisitions that are transforming the tabloid news industry.
That creditor backstopping AMI is a New Jersey investment fund called Chatham Asset Management. Its top executive dined with Pecker and Trump at the White House last year, and the fund has both a history of Republican political donations and ties to the administration of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, which awarded it hundreds of millions of dollars in state retirement funds to manage.
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Batboy, Aliens and such. My daughter used to love them when she was a child, and I must confess to getting a chuckle out of them myself. Stupid stories, and no one gets hurt. The National Enquirer starts out with the intention of hurting someone. Namely Hillary, or the Clintons in general, for the past three decades or so. Fascist assholes. 
People's retirement depending upon the success of the Republican party. Let that sink in for a bit. 
1). Printed Material sales have been declining for a very long time as more and more folks move to electronic offerings, social media and websites for their news, be that the real or imagined types.
2). With the advent of Trump and his ilk on the scene it simply has to be more and more difficult to come up with stories and filler that are more bizarre than what we see daily on cable or from the main stream media sources. Personally I can't imagine things getting wackier, but they seem to do so on a daily basis. 
Just my opinions.....
Good thoughts (in my humble opinion)
Elvis on the Moon and I really miss Monkey Boy, but that was The Weekly World News in glorious B&W! 
...and that will be the end of all those trashy magazines. I'm sure somebody is working out the income streams and the profit potential right now.
The cashier lines already have cooties now with the tabloids oozing skin crawling silent screaming banshee headlines! To have it all accompanied by audio would be like a trek through Dante’s Inferno!
which will soon be extinct.
And what a day it will be when Americans are no longer attracted by stories about alien impregnation. 
