The first issue of National Enquirer I saw was in 1971 in Grandma's living room. As I picked it up, Grandma urgently told me: "That's not a real newspaper. Nothing in it is true. The stories are made up."
I asked, "Why do you read it then?"
"It's funny. The stories make me laugh. I don't know how they make up such wild stories," she replied, laughing.
The history of the National Enquirer and media are significantly different from the story in "Scandalous". No mention is made of the stories about aliens and humans marrying and having babies, sightings of the Loch Ness monster, Big Foot, and other oddities, speculations and stories about the Bermuda Triangle, all of which were presented as factual.
Rather, "Scandalous" portrays the National Enquirer as having been a largely reliable, respectable news source, which I can't write without laughing.
"Scandalous" alleges that the Enquirer started "catch and kill" during the Schwarzennegger campaign. "Catch and kill" is as old as journalism.
The primary agenda of "Scandalous" is revenge against David Pecker and the Enquirer for attacking Jeff Bezos. The story omits that Bezos bought The Washington Post, which Bezos now uses to attack the Enquirer and Trump.
Overall, the film misrepresents most of what it reports. I'm an independent observer, thinker, and voter. "Scandalous" is political propaganda and a jab at David Pecker, who deserves jabbing. The problem with "Scandalous" is that it is agenda-driven, historically inaccurate, and misleading.