Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Coverage of G�rard's little pee illustrates, again, how celebrity culture undermines journalism
Did you raise your eyebrows at the amount of space in print, and time on air, granted to G�rard Depardieu's peeing-on-a-plane escapade? Or did it strike you as entirely unremarkable that it got the coverage it did?Tom McGurk, writing in Ireland's Sunday Business Post, viewed it as a further example of the declining standards of journalism. He asked: "Is there not something about the sheer utter
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