National Enquirer reporters were so good at journalism they ruined news
graced nearly every grocery store checkout line in America, its lurid headlines just as innocuous a part of the shopping experience as Juicy Fruit gum or a pack of Skittles. In those days, the magazine seemed like the news equivalent of that checkout aisle candy—not sustenance but not dangerous.
Regan and Sternig are so good at their jobs that, when speaking with them, it’s easy to forget that their tremendous ability to elicit information wasn’t used to break stories like Watergate. Instead, their unerring skills were mostly used to spin and amplify salacious details until a story had grown so unwieldy it was impossible to tell fact from fiction.
customers bought it, the contents were disseminated through headlines and teasers; its articles skimmed when lines were too long. Thegave Missy America access to celebrity that went beyond the polished, posed press releases and canned PR statements of fan magazines, offering glimpses of stars as they “really” were, warts and all.
If Sternig made me feel included in the world of Phyllis Diller, Burt Reynolds, and Michael Landon—people whose careers peaked before I was born—I can’t even imagine how themust have hit its predominantly female readership who had rarely had anything more than recipes and hairstyles offered to them by the press. Thecreated the illusion of being close to celebrities by airing their darkest secrets alongside the unposed, unretouched images we would come to think of as “tabloid photos.
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