Another Crappy Celebrity Bio Headed Your Way!

You may have noticed this pattern:

Some celebrity you probably haven't heard much about in a while is suddenly in the news--not for things they are doing now, but because of stories they are telling about the past, which media outlets treats as headline stuff even when, frankly, the stories are pretty trivial, with the practice not necessarily limited to entertainment news. You wonder "Why am I hearing so much about this idiot?" Then you hear they have a memoir coming out. And you realize that is why you were hearing about them.

In this situation the news media was not reporting the news, but acting as advertisers for the book, a book the world almost certainly does not need, ghostwritten on behalf of someone who contributed nothing but a name and maybe some gossip, so that that book the celebrity did not write and which the world does not need might be on the bestseller list the week of its appearance.

This rather revolting game is yet another reminder that it is the Dauriats calling the shots in publishing--and that the media elites who demand so much respect consistently prove themselves unworthy of that respect, all as the portion of the public that still reads books all too depressingly rewards the vile behavior of all of the above, just about every time.