Word: clontz
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...ripped not just at the goofiness of pop culture but at its own readers' prurience and gullibility. ("Redneck Vampire Attacks Trailer Park.") The main audience for this satire was not those who might laugh at it but those who might take it as true. "It is my belief," Derek Clontz told the Post, "that in the '80s and into the '90s, most people believed most of the material most of the time...
...Media Inc.'s National Enquirer - a way of keeping the old presses running when the Enquirer switched to color. Though the staid name chosen for the paper suggested a down-market version of Foreign Affairs, it was for its first few years one more celebrity gossip rag. Then Eddie Clontz became editor, and WWN gleefully leapt into the quicksand of fake news. (Read all about the paper's history in a comprehensive Washington Post obit...
...Clontz pushed the tabloid tactic of exaggeration into distortion and then outright invention. No need for qualifying clauses on an implausible story; at WWN, innuendo went out the window. For the editors, Photoshop was their AP picture bank. For the writers, a wild imagination was their reporter's notebook. Other newsmen might be held to a two-source minimum; the WWN staff strictly adhered to a no-source minimum...
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