Why Is the <em>National Enquirer</em> So Obsessed With Jeff Bezos?
What a gross media moment reveals about conspiratorial thinking in America
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
