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Funny of the day

This précis made me laugh - top to bottom. But then again, I just saw Hitchhiker’s Guide last night so my sense of the ridiculous is freshly honed (it was super good and we could have just walked into a 12:30am screening of Sith but we didn’t).

This immediately brought to mind a piece I read Tuesday, as I was catching up on an older Economist. Apparently the celebrity trash newsies market is booming on both sides of the Atlantic, and we have new entrants. (Econ is sub required - a lot more than a couple $17 martinis, but, as some will say about the Times, worth it — or you can read about it in USA Today, perhaps the most appropriate source for analysis on this kind of news). From the Economist piece:

Young women want every bit of information they can glean about their role models and are willing to buy several titles each week…..Advertisers may sniff at low-down gossip, but America’s female readers seem happy to take their celebrity news any way they can get it—true, false, worshipful or unkind.

Of course, you have to 1,$s/women|female/bloggers/g (ie. sub “blogger” for “chick” over the whole article). But the point remains that old media and new media are getting closer every day. Where are the celebrity blogger gossip blogs?

Disclaimer: I have a bulging backpack and a martini-based price comparison works for me; at least he didn’t “put it in perspective” against 10 Starbucks visits or products from Apple. I wonder if that would have secured less derision? Ya gotta know your market.