Why Is the <em>National Enquirer</em> So Obsessed With Jeff Bezos?
What a gross media moment reveals about conspiratorial thinking in America
by Alexis C. Madrigal
Jan 10, 2019
3 minutes
In some ways, it’s the most expected story in the world. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, and his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie, are getting a divorce, and a tabloid alleges that a Bezos affair was the reason. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
But because this is such a common archetype, the precise form it took reveals the turbulence and structure of our current media moment.
Yesterday morning, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos made on Twitter. “We want to make
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