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Margaret Sullivan: Bezos rolls over a log and the National Enquirer’s sleaze crawls out

And for a few long minutes, the chattering classes shut up. And read. And tried to make sense of what they were reading.

"HOLY COW," he tweeted. "In a medium post, @JeffBezos says that David Pecker and AMI threatened to release embarrassing photos unless Bezos agreed to stop investigating them and released a statement saying he didn't have anything on them! He included emails in the post."

Yes, it’s official. We are living inside a Tom Wolfe novel — call it “Bonfire of the Insanities” — set in the furiously bubbling political and media cauldron of 2019.