Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at the Supermarket Tabloids (Paperback)

by Jim Hogshire (Author)

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Despite its eye-catching title, Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient! is actually a fairly serious look at the history and phenomenon of tabloid newspapers. Having worked for nearly all the supermarket tabloids, Jim Hogshire is in a good position to know his subject, and he neither spares the tabs their due skewering, nor succumbs to the mainstream press's penchant for dismissing these checkout-stand mainstays. Pointing out the impact of these widely circulated journals and their conservative political slant, Hogshire makes a strong case for the tabs reflecting and reinforcing a number of popular trends. Although the book suffers a bit from lack of footnotes and loose editing, it's solid and enlightening, and reveals some surprising things about where the tabs come from, how their stories are researched (and often how they are fabricated), and who reads them.

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An astute and provocative exploration is made of the fascinating, disturbing, and increasingly influential world of the tabloids we love to hate. The tabloids have reshaped the design and content of the so-called respectable media, according to Hogshire. Packed with eerily compelling conspiracy stories and solid investigative muckraking, this book will delight--and alarm--all those concerned with how and where we get our news. Phots and illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 147 pages
• Publisher: Feral House (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0922915423
• ISBN-13: 978-0922915422
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,119,166 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a Left-deconstructionist critique of tabloids, August 27, 2001

By	Thomas M. Sipos (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Hogshire believes tabloids are Rightist institutions that reinforce the "traditional patriarchal power structure." E.g. tabloids' "Rags-To-Riches" tales support the notion that anyone can succeed under capitalism if they are honest and work long hard hours. Tabloids' "fat obsession" reinforce oppressive sexist standards of beauty. And "Fall of the Mighty" stories alleviate class antagonisms by assuring working class readers that the rich and powerful are always punished for their greed and wrongdoing. Hogshire also speculates about the tabloids' CIA and Mafia ties in the 1960s. A short (147 pages), lively, and informative book despite its biases, by a former tabloid writer (who bites the hand that fed him).

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3.0 out of 5 stars Reliable (?) account of supermarket tabs, December 19, 2006

By	David Bonesteel (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Jim Hogshire worked for several supermarket tabloids, so it's not surprising that his expose of their inner workings shares some of the same deficiencies. These include a willingness to speculate freely about his subject, often constructing chains of circumstantial evidence to substantiate claims such as tabloids hiring CIA agents in order to provide them with plausible cover for their activities around the world. He also asserts that the tabloids are associated with government psychological warfare departments, serving as right-wing propaganda tools.

All of these accusations are interesting and may even be true. More reliable are Hogshire's accounts of tabloid editorial practices and anecdotes about some of the goings-on behind the scenes. Taken with a grain of salt, there is much to enjoy here.

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5.0 out of 5 stars CIA MKULTRA mind control of supermarket shoppers, June 4, 2007

By	John D. Lee 2 (Knoxville, Tennessee, uSA) - See all my reviews

This excellent book reveals the top secret that US government's Central Intelligence Agency founded and owned the National Enquirer magazine. OSS/CIA agent Alexander Pope eventually sold "his" tabloid empire for $300-million.

The propaganda value of tabs is unmatched, where mind control diverts every person who fails to avert their eyes at supermarket checkouts. Purchasing the rag is not required for the mindmeld to take effect.

Occasional in-depth reporting of Uncle Scam's felonious confessions, like Pentagon's massmurder of US troops with Gulf War Syndrome via bioweaponized "vaccines", are rendered harmless between imaginary stories of illegal aliens invading from outer space.

If you want to keep tabs on the machinations of CIA to Win Hearts And Minds, buy this book.

Epilog Not Included In Book:

Media mind control has always been a strategy of intelligence agencies throughout history. Remember that Edward Bernays, author of his textbook, Propaganda, and nephew of Dr Sigmund Freud, was a CIA agent.

The National Enquirer was the only target of AllCIAduh during the 9/11 Anthrax Massacres, when its photography editor was assassinated before he could reportedly publish nude photos of George Bush Jr dancing on a tabletop, among other juicy gossip on the Bush family jewels. The FBI confiscated the Enquirer's entire HQ and all its contents, and gave it to Sir Rudy Giuliani Knight of the British Empire, to destroy the evidence, just like Ghouliani destroyed evidence of explosive bombings of World Trade Center after 9/11, by shipping the melted steel to Communist China. Ghouliani was named as a potential director of CIA after 9/11, gave the order to bomb WTC 7 according to billionaire Larry Silverstein on PBS TV, is the son of a Mafia enforcer jailed in Sing Sing for armed robbery, and cousin of a Mafia hitman gunned down by the FBI, according to New York Daily News. The Jr Bush White House was on Cipro antibiotic two weeks prior to the Anthrax mailbombings. Sir George Bush Sr Knight of the British Empire was director of the CIA, and was sued under the RICO Act for narcoterrorist bombings during Iran-Contra. The FBI website confesses that USAma Bin Laden is not indicted for the 9/11 Massacres, because there is zero evidence connecting him to that crime, as confirmed by VP "Dick" Cheney on the White House website in an interview with Tony Snow. CNN reported USAma's official declaration that he had nothing to do with the 9/11 Massacres. USAma was an employee of both CIA and its parent MI6, and his brother dined with his business partner George Bush Sr and Carlyle Group in Washington DC on 9/11/2001.

Obviously, the entire media mafia is now pitching the same CIA spin as the tabloids. So if you want to keep tabs on the current machinations of Big Brother behind the scenes at CNN, NBC, and Fox, extrapolate from this book. I repeat again, this is an important book on the secret history of the US government. Alarm Red. This is not a drill. The Duck is in the noose. Over and out.