THE GROWING IRRELEVANCE OF CELEBRITY GOSSIP

«And two weeks ago, venerable gossip Liz Smith ended one of her syndicated newspaper columns by quoting a producer of a celebrity-driven television show as observing, "There's nothing going on in celebrity land. There's no news, no gossip, no scandal. The Oscars showed how dull things are. People are only interested in politics." Smith herself wondered if the slackening appetite for star news wasn't also about the fact that "we are being dished up loads of stuff about people we have never heard of and don't care about."

-Rebecca Treister
Salon
March 19 2008