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...late 1960s, the Enquirer shed its "I Ate My Baby" image in favor of miracle diets, life-after-death tales and celebrity muck. A fact-checking department was developed in its Lantana, Fla., headquarters, and all gossip items had to be backed up by two independent sources-who were often paid by the Enquirer. But faced with flagging sales and increased competition from Rupert Murdoch's racy rising Star (circ. 3.5 million), Pope soon ordered up more pizazz. The outcome of the Burnett case and other suits may well determine whether he ordered up too much...
Churcher's carefully worded story was scarcely noticed by the public. But a similar report a day later by Britain's Oldharn Evening Chronicle caught the attention of the sensation-seeking National Enquirer. Within 24 hours, half a dozen reporters left the Enquirer's Lantana, Fla., headquarters and arrived on Steptoe's doorstep to buy worldwide rights to the story of the test-tube baby. When Steptoe hesitated, the Floridians looked to other sources. According to London's Sunday Times, the Enquirer team tried to buy details from nurses at Oldham and District General Hospital...
...LANTANA (berries): gastrointestinal irritation, muscular weakness and circulatory difficulties. Sometimes fatal...
...Secretary "really revolted." The home-town Washington Post decried Gourley's trash-can investigation as "indefensible-both as journalistic-practice and as civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers. Ask leading questions like 'Do you ever go into the corner...
Last summer Pope moved his entire editorial operation from New Jersey to Lantana, Fla., and the whole editorial staff of 33 was delighted to go along, both for place and pay. Enquirer writers make starting salaries of $20,000 a year. Copy editors average $30,000 and top editors well over $50,000. Even stringers, who supply many story ideas and some of the rough copy, earn...