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Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture

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Is there anyone who's shopped at a grocery store who hasn't either sniffed condescendingly or been at least secretly inquisitive about those headlines by the check-out screaming about Elvis, Batboy, Brangelina & Britney, aliens, Hollywood scandals and political bombshells? If you've done either, this book is for you! Paula Morton has done the research, shared a few pints with former, very colorful tabloid reporters, checked the facts, double-checked, and checked again. Here's the story of why all of America's major tabloids ended up being published in a small coastal region of Florida, the incredible lengths to which reporters have gone to get the story, how they've often (more often than most of us would think) actually broken stories that have come to dominate our "regular" media news (think "Gennifer Flowers" and "O.J.'s Bruno Magli's" to name just two). Tabloid Valley offers a nonfiction view into the sometimes true, sometimes shocking, always wildly entertaining world of America's tabloids. A good read, a fun read!