Pascrell Calls on Five of Largest Supermarkets to Pull National Enquirer
Requests trusted businesses stop selling tabloid purveyor of toxic misinformation
WASHINGTON, D.C. Less than two weeks after U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.-09) attacked reports that MNG Enterprises Inc., an arm of the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, was seeking to purchase the Democrat friendly
Gannett Company through a hostile takeover of Gannett’s board of directors.
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.-09) once again attacked the first amendment asking for a newspaper ban at many supermarket chains.
Pascrell wrote to the heads of the supermarket chains Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, and Food Lion, and called on them to remove the National Enquirer tabloid from their shelves following the latest reports that the head of the tabloid allegedly used it to deliberately spread false information and as a vehicle to commit extortion, blackmail, and other crimes.
“I write to request your businesses discontinue sales of the National Enquirer tabloid. Recent events make clear that the tabloid is a purveyor of fabricated news and possibly a vehicle in furtherance of illegal extortion, blackmail, and other crimes. In the interest of your millions of customers, this tabloid should be removed from all your store shelves,” Pascrell writes the leaders of America’s largest supermarket chains.
A copy of Rep. Pascrell’s letter is available here, and the text of it is provided below.