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This is why one of my major newslinks is the NYTimes website. Celebrity news? Good luck finding it. It's usually buried somewhere in the tiny, tiny window of AP/Reuters headlines. There are exceptions to the lack of celebrity news. For instance, there will often be a mention if someone dies. There are occasionally interviews because of an upcoming movie, in which case it will be under "Movies" or "Arts and Leisure"; right now there is a very small picture of Dwayne Johnson on the front page because he did an interview for the Sunday Times to promote Escape to Witch Mountain. There will also be celebrity interviews if the celebrity in question has recently tackled a show on Broadway (ie Jane Fonda has been taking up one of the sidebars on the NYTimes website for the past week, and there is an interview with Joan Allen in Arts). But they don't bash you over the head with celebrity culture; it's clearly not their priority.
I don't care about celebrity antics. It's not interesting, nor is it informative. I don't really learn anything when I read about it. In fact, I think it does more harm than good in terms of our national intelligence to be so focused on this malarky.
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