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Comment by CDRdude | Hacker News Reader

>tabloid journalists are scrupulously factual and accurate, while regular journalists more or less write whatever they want without much regard to whether it is true or even coherent

Do we exist in the same universe? When I visit the National Enquirer website, the current headline is "Hillary Clinton Caught With Lesbian Lovers". Meanwhile, the headline on the New York Times is "Cam Trump Win? Here Are the Decisive Battlegrounds".

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In the span of about 3 weeks the National Enquirer said that Prince died of Suicide, Accidental Drug Overdose, Aids, and Suicide because of Aids. The Same publication declared 3 separate causes of death for the same person in back to back to back issues, and yet people still read and believe this fucking garbage.

I was eventually able to find the story you mention, although I couldn't get the Enquirer's site to deliver it to me; I had to depend on the Google cache. There's a possibly more stable copy of the article at http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?495943-National-..., followed by the kind of worthless tripe comments you'd expect from the kind of people who read gossip tabloids; there's more background at http://gawker.com/why-is-the-internet-obsessed-with-photos-o....

It might turn out that the Enquirer is wrong, but I see no reason to assume that they are; they've been right about a lot of apparently implausible gossipy stories in the past. I also feel kind of dirty for even considering the question, since obviously whether Clinton has sex with women (lesbians or otherwise) is a private matter.

Perhaps parent comment was thinking of a different tabloid, or a different country with stronger libel laws.

> "Hillary Clinton Caught With Lesbian Lovers".

Isn't that just like her? And of course she didn't come out for gay marriage until 2013. What a hypocrite.

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