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🗓️ 14 April 2019

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0:00.0	Who wants to buy the National Inquirer?
0:04.0	American media is selling the scandal plagued tabloid.
0:07.0	The company's CEO David Pecker, you know, the guy who was ensnared in the Donald
0:11.0	Trent Michael Cohen porn star hush money scheme, totally normal stuff.
0:14.5	He's offloading the tabloid.
0:16.3	According to the Washington Post, it's partly due to pressure
0:19.0	from the hedge fund that has a controlling stake
0:21.0	in Becker's company. The Inquire, of course, is under scrutiny for its
0:24.8	scoop about Jeff Badesos' love life. Federal prosecutors are looking into the Amazon CEO's
0:29.3	allegations that AMI tried to blackmail and extort him.
0:33.7	Sarah Allison broke the Inquirer for sales story,
0:36.3	along with her colleague Mark Fisher,
0:37.4	and she's joining me now.
0:38.8	Sarah, what happened?
0:39.4	The Hedge Fund owner of the Inquirer,
0:41.6	you say, became disgusted with the tabloid's tactics, but hasn't
0:45.4	the Inquirer been buying scoops for decades?
0:48.9	Right, well I think what it's important to do is look at the timeline of this.
0:52.0	So they discussed, they first started talking about,
0:55.5	the board of AMI first started talking about maybe doing something with the National
1:00.0	Inquire in August. And that is when AMI was talking about setting up this non-prosecution
1:06.2	agreement with federal prosecutors.
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