{"id":25452,"date":"2014-11-29T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25452"},"modified":"2014-11-22T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:41:27","slug":"qotd-celebrity-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/qotd-celebrity-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Celebrity journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The formula for celebrity journalism is to mix schadenfreude with celebration at about the ratio of gin to vermouth in a dry martini.<\/p>\n<p>The May 5 issue of <em>People<\/em> may not be the best example. Its theme is &#8220;50 Most Beautiful&#8221; and those selected do look enviably better than you and me. But, going back to the April 28th issue, the lead story is &#8220;Tori &#038; Dean in Therapy on TV \u2014 Sex-Addiction Nightmare.&#8221; There&#8217;s a headline that provides us all with contentment and joy in our ordinary, un-illustrious lives. This is a great social good.<\/p>\n<p>And in the matter of &#8220;making anyone and everyone prominent,&#8221; who the heck are Tori and Dean? They are Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott. &#8220;Tori Spelling&#8221; rang a bell. She was on <em>Beverly Hills 90210<\/em> 20 years ago, appeared in such films as <em>Scary Movie 2<\/em>, wrote an autobiography that would have been more interesting if she\u2019d waited for Dean to start mainlining booty, did some reality-TV stuff, and had a falling out with her mother over a bunch of money her dad didn&#8217;t leave her in his will. If you fertilized your lawn today, you have led a more productive life than Tori Spelling.<\/p>\n<p>P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/04\/welcome-to-show-biz-sharia-law.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Welcome to Showbiz Sharia Law: No talent? Kind of dim-witted? No shame? Perfect. The celebrity industry needs you \u2014 just don\u2019t ever veil your face&#8221;, <em>The Daily Beast<\/em><\/a>, 2014-05-04<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formula for celebrity journalism is to mix schadenfreude with celebration at about the ratio of gin to vermouth in a dry martini. The May 5 issue of People may not be the best example. Its theme is &#8220;50 Most Beautiful&#8221; and those selected do look enviably better than you and me. But, going back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,41],"tags":[122,248],"class_list":["post-25452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-movies","tag-realitytv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Cw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28836,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions\/28836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}