We don't know whether it was a slow news weekend, but imagine our surprise yesterday when we started reading the Sunday New York Times and saw a story about America's fascination with celebrity scandals on the front page.
Excuse us? This blog is how old? This is news? We don't think so. We wouldn't be having this conversation if Americans weren't fascinated with celebrity bad behavior.
So anyway ... about the story. It seems that a NYT reporter was staying across the hall from Michael Lohan and overheard his plans to start a bidding war between TMZ and Radar for an exclusive statement that he really didn't physically assault his fiancée, who claimed he had. Or something.
Well, it turns out that Radar won the auction, and Michael Lohan made not one but four separate appearances on the site saying ... whatever. Who cares?
The New York Times crack investigative reporters, that's who. They followed the money trail and discovered:
Some law enforcement officials who handled the Southampton criminal complaint against Mr. Lohan questioned whether they might have played bit parts in an endless script the Lohans were writing about themselves. After all, one official noted in an interview, the alleged harassment took place in the home where Mr. Lohan and his fiancée, Ms. Major, were filming a proposed reality show called "Celebrity House NY."Ms. Major's incident report, which was not publicly available, found its way onto TMZ, and the Web site's photographers just happened to encounter her as she left her lawyer's Manhattan offices.
"It does lead you to wonder," the official said, after Ms. Major dropped the complaint.
It doesn't make us wonder. We knew all along that Michael Lohan was a douchebag's douchebag. Who marries, spawns, gets engaged to, and hangs out only with other douchebags.
Remember Jon Gosselin? Thanks, NYT, for informing us that every one of Jon Gosselin's exclusive interviews, Las Vegas pool parties, and yogurt shop photo ops was arranged by an agent Michael Lohan introduced him to. Most of all, thank you, NYT for revealing that Michael Lohan arranged for a kick-back on each and every one of Jon's paid appearances.
The answer is obviously to stop going to sites like TMZ or Radar. When you do that, you're feeding the beast.
Just come here instead.
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