Wild Trailer for Documentary SCANDALOUS Chronicles the History of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER
In my lifetime, I have always known The National Inquirer to be a trashy, fake news source that didn’t base any of its reports in reality, and just figured old people either thought it was real or liked the absurdity of it. This trailer for the documentary film Scandalous sheds an interesting light on the history of the tabloid and the real extent the staff went to to get photos and stories in deceptive and scandalous ways.
The doc interviews employees of the rag who are pretty frank about the seedy and underhanded clientele with which they dealt, even talking about bribes and payoffs they took from the rich and famous.
Here’s the synopsis:
Sex! Gossip! Scandal! For over 60 years, the National Enquirer has pumped out salacious, shocking stories, stretching the limits of journalism and blurring the lines between truth and fiction. SCANDALOUS is the sensational true story of the most infamous tabloid in US history, a wild, probing look at how one newspaper's prescient grasp of its' readers darkest curiosities led it to massive profits and influence. From its coverage of Elvis's death, to Monica Lewinsky and the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the National Enquirer rattled the foundations of American culture and politics, sometimes allegedly using payoffs and blackmail to get its scoops. With rare archival footage and revelations as wild as National Enquirer headlines themselves, SCANDALOUS examines our obsession with the rich, famous and powerful, and the tabloid that has fed those obsessions for generations of Americans.
Check out the trailer below and see Scandalous in select theaters on November 15th.