Political sexiness sells
I have been critical in the past of celebrity news coverage in the paper, explaining that we didn't spend any time and little space on the antics of Britney and Brangelina. Leave that to the Peoples and the Us magazines of the world.
Oh, how wrong I was. Little did I know that we have had nothing but celebrity-dominated front pages for much of the past month
From The New York Times:
Some of the most celebrity-centric, entertainment-obsessed news media outlets have added a heavy dose of political news to their lineups, taking space normally devoted to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and handing it to articles on people known more for wonkiness than sexiness....
Driving all of it, editors and campaign aides say, is the appetite for news on presidential candidates and their families -- people who have transcended politics to become bona fide celebrities. As the campaign stretches into its second year, in some corners it is simply seen as entertainment.
Entertaining, it is.
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Nice... a mispelling in the editor's blog head... you're missing an i in political. That's something I'd expect out of the Rockingham County papers, but not the N&R.
Posted on May 8, 2008 12:58 PM
Thanks, gh. Misspellings and typos happen even to the best of us, and I'm not even among the best of us.
Posted on May 8, 2008 1:18 PM