http://www.demablogue.com/random/our-insatiable-appetite-for-celebrity-transgressions/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:04:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.demablogue.com/random/our-insatiable-appetite-for-celebrity-transgressions/comment-page-1/#comment-1984 Shaman Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:40:43 +0000 http://www.demablogue.com/?p=896#comment-1984 I Facebook-like this. I Facebook-like this.

]]> http://www.demablogue.com/random/our-insatiable-appetite-for-celebrity-transgressions/comment-page-1/#comment-1967 max Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:57:52 +0000 http://www.demablogue.com/?p=896#comment-1967 I appreciate the insightful comments. Thanks for reading! I appreciate the insightful comments. Thanks for reading!

]]> http://www.demablogue.com/random/our-insatiable-appetite-for-celebrity-transgressions/comment-page-1/#comment-1965 Rix Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:45:25 +0000 http://www.demablogue.com/?p=896#comment-1965 There is another, more sinister factor at play - I mean, besides usual journalistic promiscuity - behind news bacchanalia like one over the carcass of Tiger Woods' golf career. In one of his immortal stories of Father Brown cycle, G. K. Chesterton talks of "the clever notion of hiding the jewels in a blaze of false stage jewellery". The real news, from both political and economic front, would be terrifying eye-openers to many if not for the never-ending, sense-numbing barrage of "hot", yet utterly worthless, celebrity coverage. There is another, more sinister factor at play – I mean, besides usual journalistic promiscuity – behind news bacchanalia like one over the carcass of Tiger Woods’ golf career. In one of his immortal stories of Father Brown cycle, G. K. Chesterton talks of “the clever notion of hiding the jewels in a blaze of false stage jewellery”. The real news, from both political and economic front, would be terrifying eye-openers to many if not for the never-ending, sense-numbing barrage of “hot”, yet utterly worthless, celebrity coverage.

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