You're right
Somehow all this celebrity gossip pish actually sells newspapers, magazines etc. I have no idea why. Who actually gives a shit about Katie Price's latest relationship disaster? Well the truth would appear to be that lots of people do. People with single-digit IQs with fuck all going on in their own lives.

Unfortunately this particular demographic seems to make up around 75% of the population. Hence the popularity of X-Factor.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 9 May 2011, 10:50, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

No I think that's bollocks,
I think it's a lie that the media have started to believe themselves.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:52, Reply)

There is an answer
We just have to make a genuine interest in celebrity gossip punishable by death. Might be difficult to implement but it makes perfect sense.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:54, Reply)

Well who buys these newspapers and magazines?
They don't buy themselves you know. Our shop at work stocks all the main newspapers, but then loads of Heat, OK, Now! - that sort of pish. Presumably they stock them because people actually buy them.

It's no coincidence that our building is mainly filled with vacant fuckwits.

They also stock The Rangers News, which totally proves my point.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 9 May 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Yes but the link between "sordid sex stories"
and increase in sales is false. They could just put pictures of attractive women in their underwear and it'll increase sales, they don't have to describe "sex acts" with footballers.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:00, Reply)

Eh?
So are you suggesting that 'celeb' magazines are predominantly bought by hetero men and lesbian women? I think that's 'grot' mags that you're thinking of.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 9 May 2011, 11:04, Reply)

No I'm thinking about News of the world
and The Star and the Express,

as I mentioned above I think the celeb magazines are different to the Tabloid press. The celeb mags almost have a pact with some celebs which I don't think is that bad, it's the confrontational attitude of the press that is what's wrong.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:06, Reply)

And Britain's Got Talent
Even the fucking judges don't have talent. Hasselhoff's nothing without a talking car or a legion of blonde women in red swimsuits.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 10:53, Reply)

You've clearly never seen his alcoholic meltdown video.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:17, Reply)

Oh well remembered.
But nonetheless, if he's not prepared to replicate it on ITV for our entertainment, it gets filed alongside KITT and Pamela Anderson's breasts in his useless back catalogue
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 9 May 2011, 11:23, Reply)