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Eric Zorn: A call for supermarkets to stop selling National Enquirer

It's immoral for stores to sell the National Enquirer.

This has been true since long before the Florida-based supermarket tabloid began churning out poisonously and deliberately false propaganda during the 2016 presidential campaign season - "Hillary (Clinton): 6 months to live!"; "Bill (Clinton) caught in teen sex ring!"; "Hillary hitman tells all!"; "Hillary and Huma (Abedin) going to jail!"; and on and on and on.

But it's especially true now that news events have shown the depths to which the Enquirer and its parent

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