The Gossip Sites : From DListed to Perez
Sept 8, 2021 18:07:36 GMT -4
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Post by Ginger on Sept 8, 2021 18:07:36 GMT -4
This article from Jezebel is a case study in a bunch of things that annoy me.
So first of all, the headline is incredibly condescending to anyone with an interest on gossip. Once again, anybody paying attention to this trainwreck is accused of being emotionally unstable and having a "broken brain". Also, none of this is about a celebrity "being in a new relationship" and whoever wrote that headline very well knows it.
Second, there is the knee-jerk shame for speculating on a pregnancy. This was not Jennifer Aniston being put on the cover of In Touch because she ate a burrito and was mildly bloated. Olivia Munn was unmistakeably 5-6 months pregnant. At least Lainey Gossip was straightforward enough to acknowledge that things get to a point where you have to say "I have eyes".
And then the final insult is the writer saying SHE is above gossiping about people she doesn't know. Then she needs to quit her fucking job as a celebrity gossip writer.
The Mulaney item was the intro to what is essentially Jezebel's "celebrity gossip roundup" with a collection of links to such illustrious websites as TMZ and Page Six with stories about the Kardashians and other celebrities.
If Jezebel wants to pretend they are above celebrity gossip, then they need to sacrifice the revenue from their clickbait celebrity gossip articles and just not write them. But if they do write them, they should lose the attitude and not turn it into a holier-than-thou lecture aimed at their readers.
If any of these outlets want to give a Craig Ferguson-style message about how Mulaney is struggling right now and they don't want to add to it - cool. But perhaps they should rewatch the Craig Ferguson video as a reminder of how to deliver such a message respectfully and with humility.
All of these celebrity gossip writers suddenly berating their readers and declaring themselves to be above the celebrity gossip by which they make their living need to step off.
Normalize Being Emotionally Stable When a Celebrity Enters a New Relationship
The mere fact of Olivia Munn “stepping out in baggy sweats sans John Mulaney” (as Page Six described it) seems to have broken people’s brains, as it appears that Munn may be pregnant—with Mulaney’s baby, is the assumption—and Mulaney and Munn only began dating some months ago when he got out of rehab and promptly announced he was divorcing his wife.
Reading this sentence I admit that it’s a juicy sequence of events—no doubt the kind of thing I would gossip about over drinks with friends if I knew any of these people personally. But because I don’t, I simply receive (and report) this information as something notable in the realm of “celebrity gossip,” nothing more. It’s certainly not an event worthy of outrage, nor is it something that would require me to contemplate Mulaney’s “fall from grace,” or that could convince me to view the end of a marriage as some kind of moral failing.
Moving right along on this pleasant Labor Day...
The mere fact of Olivia Munn “stepping out in baggy sweats sans John Mulaney” (as Page Six described it) seems to have broken people’s brains, as it appears that Munn may be pregnant—with Mulaney’s baby, is the assumption—and Mulaney and Munn only began dating some months ago when he got out of rehab and promptly announced he was divorcing his wife.
Reading this sentence I admit that it’s a juicy sequence of events—no doubt the kind of thing I would gossip about over drinks with friends if I knew any of these people personally. But because I don’t, I simply receive (and report) this information as something notable in the realm of “celebrity gossip,” nothing more. It’s certainly not an event worthy of outrage, nor is it something that would require me to contemplate Mulaney’s “fall from grace,” or that could convince me to view the end of a marriage as some kind of moral failing.
Moving right along on this pleasant Labor Day...
So first of all, the headline is incredibly condescending to anyone with an interest on gossip. Once again, anybody paying attention to this trainwreck is accused of being emotionally unstable and having a "broken brain". Also, none of this is about a celebrity "being in a new relationship" and whoever wrote that headline very well knows it.
Second, there is the knee-jerk shame for speculating on a pregnancy. This was not Jennifer Aniston being put on the cover of In Touch because she ate a burrito and was mildly bloated. Olivia Munn was unmistakeably 5-6 months pregnant. At least Lainey Gossip was straightforward enough to acknowledge that things get to a point where you have to say "I have eyes".
And then the final insult is the writer saying SHE is above gossiping about people she doesn't know. Then she needs to quit her fucking job as a celebrity gossip writer.
The Mulaney item was the intro to what is essentially Jezebel's "celebrity gossip roundup" with a collection of links to such illustrious websites as TMZ and Page Six with stories about the Kardashians and other celebrities.
If Jezebel wants to pretend they are above celebrity gossip, then they need to sacrifice the revenue from their clickbait celebrity gossip articles and just not write them. But if they do write them, they should lose the attitude and not turn it into a holier-than-thou lecture aimed at their readers.
If any of these outlets want to give a Craig Ferguson-style message about how Mulaney is struggling right now and they don't want to add to it - cool. But perhaps they should rewatch the Craig Ferguson video as a reminder of how to deliver such a message respectfully and with humility.
All of these celebrity gossip writers suddenly berating their readers and declaring themselves to be above the celebrity gossip by which they make their living need to step off.
