Talkin' bout my generation
I couldn't help myself. I had to put up a Lindsay Lohan blog post.
I'll admit, I buy into celebrity gossip nearly as much as anyone, if only to make snarky comments on it (I know, I know -- Snarky? ME?!?). But I can't help but love this trash! It is the journalism equivalent of a Whataburger double-double. I'd even like to believe it is a generational thing, yet I'm watching LiLo (as Bridgette tells me the 4th floor nerds call her) on CNN right now, and the teenage set isn't exactly their target market.
My questions are these:
Is there any historical equivalent to the hollywood trainwrecks, or is this an Internet-fueled revolution?
and
What is everyone else's journalistic guilty pleasure?
Comments
Journalistic guilty pleasure = college football blogs - which is why hopefully 20 years from now I'm working a job where I could stretch it into the job description...
Posted by: Ross Taylor | July 24, 2007 2:08 PM
I heart a cupcake blog like a fat kid loves cake! But I guess that doesn't really qualify as journalistic.
Posted by: Stefanie | July 24, 2007 3:06 PM
My guilty pleasure is celebrity mug shots. They are rich and paid to be pretty. Seeing them at their worst reminds us that being a Hollywood star or pro athlete doesn't mean you can get away with driving around drunk and committing felonies. For that, you have to be a politician.
Posted by: Michael Mooney | July 24, 2007 3:18 PM
Um, this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Up-Book-Celebrity-Meltdowns-Pop/dp/1595910123/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7808487-4616655?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185310216&sr=8-1
Most of the time, I just want to bang my head on my desk repeatedly when I see celebrity gossip. I had a major journalistic letdown this year, as my favorite magazine "Premiere" went to the big newsstand in the sky, and what replaced the remainder of my subscription? Not something of my choice, but the journalistic equivalent of Wendy's Baconator (sorry for the analogy stealing, Josh), "US Weekly." It makes me want to pull my hair out. It's horrendous.
Posted by: Kip | July 24, 2007 3:53 PM