It’s one thing that celebrities have taken over magazines like People and newspapers like the New York Post. That’s fine. I like my fix of celebrity gossip where I can get it. But where is the line? Now, not only are higher-brow media outlets gossiping about celebrities, they’re actually giving them bylines.
This week, two extremely high profile celebrities, Angelina Jolie and Mary-Kate Olsen, both received bylines in two extremely high-profile newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Jolie’s op-ed piece in the Washington Post urged Americans for support in Darfur. At the bottom of the article, it stated that: “The writer is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.” And, let’s not forget, People magazine’s most beautiful person in the world.
M.K.’s piece in the New York Times Sunday Styles section talks about her love for Chanel bags and how she doesn’t have a stylist and just likes to “do her own thing.” Yeah, like we couldn’t have figured that out by the way she runs around wearing no pants calling it “hobo-chic.”
I guess if I ever want a byline in one of these papers, I better get to work on my acting career.
Kristen OGorman @ Sat, 03/03/2007 - 10:04pm
Seriously... this makes me so angry. It's one thing for an actress to think that she can become a singer; at least they're (more or less) related. But celebrity reporters better not become a trend. At least Angelina's is a bit more insightful than Mary-Kate's article about her pretty bag...