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Here’s some deeply comforting news for anyone — anyone? – who still cares more about boring shit like the economy or healthcare or job loss or the BP spill, a new celebrity news agency!
Because, you know, we really don’t get enough news about celebrities.
From mediabistro.com’s blog FishbowlLA:
We began testing the waters and working with experienced U.S.-based freelance reporters, many of whom had either lost their jobs or had had their hours drastically cut back. The results were astounding. While magazines shutter in the U.S. and reduce pay, magazines in Britain and France, for instance, continue to pay rates that are twice the level of ordinary freelance news rates in the US. Average stories sell for $400 to $1,000. Bigger exclusives, such as a story on Tiger Woods, can go up to $3000.
What are some of the stories we have sold? We debunked the rumors about the Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt break up for More magazine in the UK, covered Lady Gaga’s penchant for green tea for Grazia Magazine, and explored the deeper meaning of medications Britney Spears might take for bi-polar disorder for Voici in France.
I can’t decide which makes me want to projectile vomit further: the insatiable appetite for crap about millionaires or the fact Europeans are paying so much better for “journalism” than American publishers.
If you need me, I’ll just be out on the window ledge, tap-dancing.
Come back inside, honey. It’ll be okay. I have never understood the obsession with celebrities either. Half of them I don’t even consider celebrities. Paris Hilton? What in hell is she famous for? Besides that *ahem* video she made. It’s worse that people like her consider themselves role models?! I have a good friend trying like hell to break into journalism, and he expresses the same woes. Great mind, little money. On second thought, scoot over, I’m coming out to join you.
Bring your gun, just in case!