[stevem]

IMHO, the Enquirer has done a good job on every story I have ever read in it. I think its reporters are professional and try to be fair. I think if they don't have their ducks in a row, their editors send the stories back for more work.

[Sonny M]

I'll admit, I don't like the Enquirer because its alot of sensationalist populist tripe about people whom I could not care less about and generally lacks any kind of worth social or political substance.

That being said, give them a topic thats worthy, they can ditch the bias and get you the facts and cut out alot of the fluff.

If these guys worked for the MSM and did real work without a bias hanging over there heads and just let them fish and get stories and news, they could do a hell of a job, in theory, they should be the perfect breeding ground for the MSM, but snobbery and fear of being laughed at for hiring them, prevents that.

The attitude is, "far better to hire a political operative, or an activist or some kind straight out of school who interned somewhere then hire somone with experience doing research, digging stories and finding things and writing about it with the fear of legal reprecussions from a dirt rag".

[beyond the sea]

Every time I think of The National Enquirer I think of the movie, 'Michael'.

From Amazon.com

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After the box-office success of Phenomenon, John Travolta continued to charm audiences with this 1996 comedy-fantasy in which he plays a grubby angel who's got one last good deed to do before heading back to heaven. Living peacefully in the rural Iowa home of an old, friendly motel owner (Jean Stapleton), the winged Michael (Travolta) is hardly the image of a perfect angel. He's scruffy, unshaven, eats sweetened cereal by the box-full and chain-smokes all day long.

But when tabloid reporters (William Hurt, Robert Pastorelli) learn of Michael's alleged existence and head to Iowa to check him out, Michael soon realizes that it's his task to see that Hurt falls in love with an "angel expert" (Andie MacDowell) and breaks free from his habitually cynical attitude. There's more to the story, of course ....... but Michael is more about the effect that this enchanting angel has on the earthbound humans around him. Whether he's chipping away at Hurt's skepticism or attracting a crowd of women on a truck-stop dance floor, Michael is an enchanting figure, and Travolta plays him with just the right tone of humor, reverence, and effervescent charm. Sure, it's lightweight fluff, but director Nora Ephron specializes in lightweight fluff, and Michael is the kind of feel-good movie that never wears out its welcome. --Jeff Shannon