TRASHY TABLOIDS LOSING SALES

________(2006)THE ECONOMIST/ 2/25/ 70

THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER and THE STAR have falling sales. Folks want their trash and there are a lot more choices. So? you can buy a bunch of them and the market is getting saturated.

To make matters worse for trash print, upscale PEOPLE and US magazines are killing their sales.

Further insult, is that OK and IN TOUCH from the Brits are charging a dollar less for low culture thrills.

As I buy groceries at the super, I see them every week on the impulse rack. Gone are the days when I could see a Jon Benet look-a- like laying in a child's coffin. I miss the stories of President Clinton being advised by President Kennedy. He never really died...you know! So, there I am

without that. All have is the tawdry affairs and hi jinks of young movie stars.  It is not even scandalous to say that some one is gay! All the starlets are kissing each other to get the males in heat. What is the world coming to? We need a Paris Hilton porno in the tabloid to boost sales.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down.