Celebrity-spotting: the game

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I saw this morning that The Economist has a story on the sheer volume of celebrity news outlets and the need to fill them with a steady stream of news. (Fun factoid: "Britons buy almost half as many celebrity magazines as Americans do, despite have a population that is only one-fifth the size.") By extension, that also means celebrities have to be created—think Paris Hilton—just to fill the pages of the various tabloids and celeb magazines (like the truly awful U.S.

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