Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart and one of his correspondents absolutely destroyed the New York media for the way in which they cover, well, everything. For instance, the Paris Hilton DUI ridiculousness. Or, alternately, the fact that Alex Rodriguez has a painting of himself as a centaur on his wall in his bedroom.Because someone thought that was important enough to ask A-Rod ladyfriend Kate Hudson about it recently. And lest you laugh (I mean, you should laugh at the whole idea of the painting), SERIOUS journalism outlet US Weekly got neither confirmation nor denial from Hudson on this very important matter.
"What is that?" she said of the mythological image "That's horrible."Just to clarify: a "reporter" from a grocery store gossip mag asked a famous actress if her famous baseball-playing boyfriend actually had a painting of his head on a centaur's body in his bedroom. And when she looked at said paparazzi-person like they were insane, the reporter printed her quotes as "neither a confirmation nor a denial."
When the reporter asked Hudson, 30, to clarify the story, she deflected. "That is the craziest thing anyone has ever asked me," she said.
"I don't indulge in those types of stories," she continued quietly, "As humorous as you might think they are."
In totally unrelated news: it's clearly the blogs that are killing journalism, one morally reprehensible act at a time.
via Hugging Harold Reynolds
