The godfathers of sleaze

MOM BOILED HER BABY AND ATE HIM. It’s a damn fine headline and a classic example of how to entice a reader into a story, but it’s not the greatest one ever printed by the National Enquirer. In fact, such is the Enquirer’s expertise in headline writin

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By Paul David Pope

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MOM BOILED HER BABY AND ATE HIM. It’s a damn fine headline and a classic example of how to entice a reader into a story, but it’s not the greatest one ever printed by the National Enquirer. In fact, such is the Enquirer’s expertise in headline writing that it probably wouldn’t even make the top ...