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    TwoscoopsofbutterHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:18am

    “How to do celebrity journalism well” you fucking idiot. That fact that you even think you’re a journalist but can’t figure out simple grammar is laughable at best.

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      The Shape of Punk to ComeTwoscoopsofbutter
      8/17/16 10:20am

      You get sarcasm so good.

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      ArnheimTwoscoopsofbutter
      8/17/16 10:20am

      Pretty sure you breezed right past the joke in your rush to deliver your piping-hot take in thirty minutes or less.

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    Stig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tourHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:16am

    How to Do Celebrity Journalism Good

    easy, see Bobby Finger.

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      CharitybStig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tour
      8/17/16 10:19am

      I think most Gawker and Jezebel articles about celebrities follow this template. Except for 500 Days of Kristin, which by the end started to feel like something that Benson and Stabler would find on the computer of a disturbed murder suspect.

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      MBCockStig-a-saw-us-wrex's final tour
      8/17/16 10:20am

      Since we are now an affiliate of Univision:

      ¿Cómo hacer periodismo de famosos Buena

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    PunditGuyHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:33am

    This seems like as good a place to ask this as any.

    Why do celebrity journalism at all?

    I’m not trying to yuck your yum. Heaven knows, I entertain myself with some stupid shit (soooo many hours lost to multiple incarnations of Star Trek, for example). But I honestly don’t get the fascination with celebrity lives. I have enough trouble keeping up with the trials and tribulations of people I already know and care about. I can’t simultaneously give any shits about singers or movie stars beefing or bro-ing with each other, or what members of any royal family do at any given time. More personally vexing is the volume of stories about people related to people who are famous — that honestly makes zero sense to me.

    So what’s the attraction? I’m genuinely curious.

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      IchabodPaddockPunditGuy
      8/17/16 12:06pm

      Most people lead boring lives?

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      TakahashiPunditGuy
      8/17/16 12:23pm

      Because most people, including the press assume that because a celebrity does one thing — sing, dance, act, draw — then they clearly are well-versed on world politics and current events. It feeds into the celebrity ego, which is you see people like George Clooney or Drew Barrymore our Bono make well-intentioned but misguided philanthropic efforts that go nowhere. We expect way too much of them.

      It never occurs to these journalists that Cameron Diaz or Will Smith don’t have to be interesting, charismatic, intellectual people when they’re not on screen.

      You’d never see Obama get asked his serious opinion on whether certain films should be made or whether Taylor Swift is a fake, yet the converse keeps cropping up in celebrity interviews.

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    Quasar FunkHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:22am

    Did nobody ask him for examples of materials he would use instead of plastic? That would have been hilarious.

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      Sobchak SecurityQuasar Funk
      8/17/16 10:23am

      They already make plastic out of plant based materials and there are plenty of water bottles made out of compostable materials.

      Odd that he’s so out of touch… Right?

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      Quasar FunkSobchak Security
      8/17/16 10:27am

      I know that. You know that. Do you think Jaden Smith knows that?

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    The Shape of Punk to ComeHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:16am

    Well this explains a lot. I thought he was a lunatic because he’s a child star, born to celebrity parents. Turns out he’s a lunatic because Will Smith fucked a pineapple.

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      Gamblor JDThe Shape of Punk to Come
      8/17/16 11:53am

      I mean, I’ve fucked a few pineapples and it never resulted in such a blight on humankind.

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      The Shape of Punk to ComeGamblor JD
      8/17/16 11:57am

      then i guess you did it wrong.

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:20am

    That's weird. I always thought it was fawning sycophancy, with a generous dose of attribution of near saintly qualities for doing what is considered the bare minimum of decent behavior. Guess I was wrong.

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      CatdogWhispererIAMBlastedBiggsLostBurner
      8/17/16 10:25am

      Hero Millionaire Gives Old Sandwich To Poor; Statue Commerating Moment To Be Built July 2018

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      IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerCatdogWhisperer
      8/17/16 10:41am

      “I refuse to spit on the homeless!", Says Hollywood Hero

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    Jon AdkinsHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 11:16am

    One word... plastics.

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      boaboaboatengtengtengJon Adkins
      8/17/16 11:37am

      #PhillipsSherman2016

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:30am

    But, like, seriously...can we just talk about Jada Pinkett Smith whenever we talk about this family, and by talk, I mean gawk?

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      Gamblor JDGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      8/17/16 11:50am

      I used to think she was so damn hot then I read an interview with her and Will about their parenting philosophy and now when I look at her all I see is the stupid.

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    GeorgeGeoffersonLivesHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:21am

    Yes, but how do you do it well?

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      NefertittiesGeorgeGeoffersonLives
      8/17/16 10:25am

      Such a well comment.

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    ThrumbolioHamilton Nolan
    8/17/16 10:36am

    “I want to create a bottle of water that is made from renewable resources, that is not made from plastic, that you don’t need fracking, that you don’t need petroleum, that you don’t need to go to war for this bottle of water.”

    Might I suggest pieces of his own skin? He’s rich, he can afford grafts (renewable!).

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