Tag: media frenzy
Amanda Knox sentenced to 26 years in Italian jail.
Uncertainty and ill-ease in Italy.
Amanda Knox, with her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, was convicted on Friday of the murder of British student, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced to 26 years in an Italian jail, but it seems that serious doubts...
Leftover Turkey vs. Tiger Woods’ Accident.
The sports worlds’ first billion-dollar boy Tiger Woods (or almost billionaire athlete depending on your sources) was injured in a car crash in the early morning hours the day after Thanksgiving.
Early reports rendered the star...
Is America Not Ready for the Glambert?
The most recent controversy that seems to have sparked a media frenzy is Adam Lambert's performance at the 2009 American Music Awards. His raunchy performance, including simulating oral sex with a male dancer and making out with a male...
The Crash of the Paparazzi Economy is Here.
When the price of your favorite celestial misfit is plummeting.
It looks like it may be time for America to collectively start weeping in their collective napkins with the release of the sobering news that the market value of photos...
Who really shot the Fort Hood killer?
Oh, it does confuse us when we don't know who to put on a pedestal.
As much as we all really liked the idea of a slightly-built mother taking down the Fort Hood shooter, despite having been shot three times...
The Fame Game: How the Noughties Have Changed the Face of Celebrity.
As difficult as it may be to imagine, I remain confident that there was once a time when children grew up with the aspiration to be something other than ‘famous’. It seems so far-fetched that at times I have...
Guns, Robots, and Broken Hearts.
The woe of being Fergie right now.
With her career booming, and a brand-new marriage to stud-muffin Josh Duhamel, it seemed like her life was perfect. But alas, that phrase of nobody being perfect seems to have...
Lohan vs. Gosselin. Gloves Come Off, Shutters Snap.
Media whore showdown.
Breathe easy, my fellow media followers, there is a God after all! It was reported that Michael Lohan and Jon Gosselin are no longer BFFs. The unlikely sleaze-duo first made headlines— wait, let me rephrase...
The Steve Phillips sex scandal.
Psychos, sportscasters and their wives.
Welcome to the life of Steve Phillips, America’s sunny face on ESPN, and the current nightmare of an ensemble that includes his wife, Marni, his jilted 22 year old lover and the network that hires...
Mama Lohan is coming after Papa Lohan…
Let the blood pour out. A day in the life of Lilo.
We don’t know if a family as wacky as the Lohans has ever existed in America before but, in any event, they have finally arrived and, to make...
Late Night King on the Guillotine.
After those infamous words were uttered out of David Letterman's mouth, it has been a chaotic media frenzy. With Stephanie Birkitt being revealed as one of his mystery mistresses, the stories keep coming in to tangle up the late...
Day 5: Schwarzenneger not willing to give Polanski a deal.
Has the celebrity tide for leniency turned?
Governor of California has told CNN that as Governor he will not grant Polanski (who was arrested at the beginning of this week for skipping trial on a child rape case 31 years...
Time to use people as political pawns again…
Ahmadinejad and Katie Couric each go for the jugular.
There has to be something a little sinister, even cynical when a tv interview between the head of a state and that of a media conglomerate start pulling out pictures of...
Sarah Palin releases her new book, “Going Rogue- An American Nuisance.”
When a public nuisance is able to cash in on her very own private American dream…
Out in Associated Press today are the unbelievable details of public nuisance at large – Sarah Palin who has been able in the space...
