Casey Anthony survives assassination attempt!

Publication: National Enquirer

Date: 28 Nov. 2011

The Enquirer would like to remind everyone that Casey Anthony is still the most hated person in America with a story about her surviving an assassination attempt.  Here are the headlines.

• Killer wanted to put a bullet through her brain
• She's pulled from kill zone & rushed to a new safe house
  

A lawyer for Anthony denies the entire story.

You So Crazy Alert™: Casey Anthony headed for mental ward.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 10 Oct. 2011

We get another big Casey Anthony headline this week, this time from the Enquirer and based entirely on a "friend fears" speculation about Casey being sent to a mental institution, where she will be subjected to "the straight-jacket, padded cell and shock treatments!"

Stay classy, Enquirer!

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony's life in hiding.

Publication: People
Date: 3 Oct. 2011

The majority of the stories about Casey Anthony have been in the Three Wicked Step Sister tabloids - The Enquirer, Globe and the low rent Examiner - but this week it's People's turn to keep her name in the public's mind. Here are the headlines.

• Despised and alone
• Her plan to leave the country
• Estranged from her parents
• Afraid for her safety
  

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony's escape to Mexico!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 19 Sept. 2011

Fresh trash tomorrow! Last trash of the week... right now!

Here are the latest Casey Anthony headlines from the Enquirer.

• Her new life after she flees country
• How she financed her getaway
• Caylee's monster mom is never coming back!
  

While several gossip rags paid attention to the Casey Anthony story when the verdict came out in July, two months later it's only the Three Wicked Step Sisters - the Enquirer, Globe and the low rent Examiner - that have any interest at all. Even so, her story is trending upwards and she might break into the Top Ten most popular celebrities this year if it keeps up, though she will have to pass a couple minor Kardashians, Sarah Palin and Justin Theroux to get there.

Formidable competition to be sure.

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony's death car scrapped!

Publication: Globe

Date: 5 Sept. 2011



The Three Wicked Step Sister tabloids, the Enquirer, Globe and the low rent Examiner, have been the main carriers of headlines about Casey Anthony now that her trial is over and she has been found not guilty. The Globe headline reads "Auto used as Caylee's coffin crushed at junkyard!" To my mind, this says they are really stretching to find anything interested or new about the situation.



Casey is not quite in the top ten of popular cover stories of 2011, but it's possible she could get there before the end of the year.

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony's letters from prison.

Publication: National Examiner
Date: 8 August 2011

Casey Anthony makes the cover of a supermarket rag for the ninth straight week by appearing on the low rent Examiner. They allegedly have excerpts from the letters she wrote in prison. Here are the headlines.

• "I was a great mom"
• Why she wants another baby
• Her lust for tattooed men
  

She Fought The Law Alert™: This week's Casey Anthony stories

Publications: National Enquirer, Globe
Date: 1 August 2011

Two of the Three Wicked Step Sister tabloids are trying to keep the outrage over the Casey Anthony verdict fueled. Here are the headlines.

• National Enquirer: Casey loses $5 mil blood money deal after bitter public backlash
  Caylee's revenge!
  Plus: her new look revealed
• Globe: Casey Anthony: Proof she got away with murder!
  Former prosecutor's bombshell charge!
  Five key piece of evidence HIDDEN from jury
  PLUS: Judge banned shocking Casey video
  

She Fought The Law (and won) Alert™: A passel of Casey Anthony stories.

Publications: National Enquirer, National Examiner, Globe, Star, In Touch
Date: 25 July 2010

If we ignore the Sun, which is usually about the end of the world, the five meanest gossip rags are the other four published by AMI (National Enquirer, the low rent Examiner, Globe, Star) and In Touch. All five of those have Casey Anthony stories this week. Here are the headlines.

• In Touch: Casey and her lawyer: getting physical!
• National Examiner: Casey Anthony verdict: what do you think?
• Globe: Casey Anthony marked for death!
  Chilling threat targets Monster Mom
• Star: Casey Anthony ca$hing in (OUTRAGE!)
• National Enquirer: Casey Anthony Wedding Bombshell
  Secret new life of America's most hated woman
  Another baby to replace Caylee
  $50K plastic surgery makeover
  Where she'll live and more

For a little outrage overspill, the Enquirer has a picture of the judge in the case and a story from his mistress blabbing about his cheating.

This is a lot of stories, but only counts as a single week's coverage by my way of counting. We will see if she remains gossip-worthy as the year continues.

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony found not guilty.

Publication: People
Date: 18 July 2011

The verdict in the Casey Anthony trial came out on Tuesday, which makes it hard for the supermarket rags to include it in this week's edition, which needs to be ready to ship around the country on early Wednesday to hit the news stands Thursday morning. Only People did the necessary work to get the story in this week's edition.

Breaking news: Casey Anthony found not guilty.

Publication: Huffington Post
Date: 5 July 2011

Casey Anthony was found not guilty of the murder of her daughter Caylee Anthony but was found guilty of lying to police. The case took 33 days, but the jurors took less then a day to come to their verdict.

I was disbelieving when the National Enquirer claimed this would be the case and skeptical when People repeated it, but obviously they were talking to people better informed than I am. The case was based on circumstantial evidence and the defense did a good job of showing the autopsy was botched.

Still, the press is going to raise a stink and she could easily become a cause celebre like O.J.

Bun in the oven alert™: Casey Anthony is pregnant!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 11 July 2011

The real news about Casey Anthony is the jury is now deliberating in her murder case. The probably not real news is that she is pregnant, according to the not very reliable Enquirer.

Since this statement was made in July, I won't be checking its veracity until next March, but my guess is it's nonsense.

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony may get away with murder!

Publication: People
Date: 4 July 2011

In early June, the Enquirer had a story in a week full of stories about Casey Anthony that said the mom accused of murder might walk. I considered the story far-fetched then, but now that it's in People, it has a little more weight. I also have to say that recent expert testimony about the sloppiness of the autopsy might sway the jury, and the prosecution's use of a jailhouse snitch might backfire.

This blog is not big on prediction, so we will wait and see what the verdict is. Recall that this trial is taking place in Florida, a legal cesspool of a state rivaled only by Louisiana and Texas.

Meanest Story nominee: Casey Anthony tortured Caylee before killing her.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 27 June 2011

The dogs from the AMI kennel are still making hay at the murder trial of Casey Anthony. The actual news reported by the legitimate press is already compelling, but the Enquirer still needs to spice things up and tell us Casey Anthony tortured her daughter before killing her.

Because obviously, killing a little girl won't make us hate her enough already.

This is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

She Fought The Law Alert™: Casey Anthony's drunken party!

Publication: Globe
Date: 20 June 2011

While several gossip rags have had stories about the murder trial now taking place in Florida, the Globe is by far the most invested in the story. They have photos from a drunken party they say took place just four days after the little girl was murdered.

Let's recall that the National Enquirer had a headline to the effect Casey Anthony will walk free. The trial isn't over yet, but this looks like as bad a prediction as has been made all year, and I'm including Dr. Harold Camping.

She Fought The Law Alert™:As the trial starts, the gossip rags pay attention to the Casey Anthony trial.

Publications: People, National Enquirer, OK!
Date: 13 June 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! Before this week, all the news about Casey Anthony, the mom on trial for her life for allegedly killing her daughter, has been in the Enquirer and Globe. Now that the trial has started, both People and OK! get in the game and the Enquirer takes a new tack. Here are the headlines.

• People: Caylee Anthony murder case
  Secrets & Lies
  Mom's shocking defense
  Bombshell testimony, new claims of sexual abuse inside accused killer Casey Anthony's trial strategy
• OK!: Casey Anthony caught in a lie
• National Enquirer: Casey Anthony will walk free!
  Killer mom's plan to escape death row!

As usual, if everyone else is saying x, the Enquirer feels duty bound to say "NOT x!"

Call it a marketing strategy.

Or lying. Whatever.

UPDATE: let's me eat some crow. The Enquirer's experts got it right. Her defense team did enough to create reasonable doubt in the jury's mind and she was found not guilty of murder.

She Fought The Law Alert™:Monster mom's defense falls apart.

Publication: Globe
Date: 30 May 2011

The story of the murder trial of Caylee Anthony continues in the AMI tabloids. Now, the mom's defense has fallen apart.

In the real world, the trial actually began this week, so all the stories in the tabloids so far have been premature.

She Fought The Law Alert™:Hidden camera nails Casey.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 16 May 2011

The murder trial of Casey Anthony has so far been covered by the Globe, but it graduates to the Flagship this week. According to them, a surveillance video proves mom guilty of murder.

She Fought The Law Alert™:Caylee's mom suicidal as murder trial nears

Publication: Globe
Date: 7 February 2011

Casey Anthony will soon be on trial for the murder of her daughter Caylee, who went missing from her Orlando home about a month before she turned three back in 2008. The Globe says Casey is now suicidal.