I think this says a lot about our society as a whole...

[missroserose]

I was checking my mail just now and I saw a link in the News section titled "Britney, hubby get reality..." As there apparently wasn't enough room to put in the whole thing (or maybe it was intentional), I broke my no-clicky-celebrity-links rule to see if it was, as I had hoped, "Britney, hubby get reality check," and perhaps have the opportunity to engage in a little bit of schadenfreude. As it happened, however, it was some article about how they're going to have their own reality TV series. I wish I could say I was surprised...

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[arison.livejournal.com]

Oh, but don't you know? That's all the rage right now.
Grah, bloody humans...

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

I know it's all the rage (hence my lack of surprise), but I have to wonder if the headline was worded that way intentionally to get the attention of cynics like me. Sort of like the one that said "Coppola, Tarantino to wed" or something like that - it was right during the whole Massachusetts thing, so most people would look at it and assume that it was about Francis Ford Coppola, though it was actually about his daughter (whom I didn't even know he had). Strikingly effective bit of journalism, though.

[arison.livejournal.com]

It probably was. The better the wording on something, the more readers it grabs, and (usually) the more money it makes.
They're getting smarter, I'll give them that.