Tina Brown says B-list celebrities are getting more coverage these days for two reasons: a vacuum of bona fide A-listers and the fact that no one wants to negotiate with the overbearing publicists of the few worth covering. (All of which sounds remarkably similar to what How to Lose Friends and Alienate People author Toby Young said last week.) The upside, Tina says, is that good celebrity tabloids will stop negotiating altogether and the coverage will improve. I hope she's right but I won't believe it's actually happening until glossy magazines start considering copy and photo approval by publicists the ethical equivalent of letting the subject edit the story. Or when I see cover shots of Britney Spears that look like this.
Something cheerfully democratic and businesslike is happening to celebrity coverage [Times2]