A Section of a historical podcast about Hollywood Confidential
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (Canadian-General) North American (General)Transcript
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In 1952 a little magazine appeared on newsstands all over the country. This new offspring of yellow journalism soon became the talk of the town, and Confidential acquired a reputation as the worst kind of rag. But everyone read it anyway. Its motto was, tells the facts and names the names confidential carried things further than any previous rumormongers had done, went into greater detail and did not hesitate to affirm that the stories that published were a faithful account of the fact. The first issue did phenomenally well and sold 250,000 copies. At its peak, Confidential was selling four million copies on newsstands, a record for American journalism. With the success of the magazine, its victims were increasingly those Hollywood luminaries whose private lives were of most morbid interest to the public. The success of Confidential enabled publisher Robert Harrison to pay up to $1000 per gossip item, assuring him a fine stable of spies. You