Evidently The New Republic has taken New Yorker editor David Remnick's recent crack about a lack of Paris Hilton coverage to heart. It's cute when stuffy publications dip their toes in the shallow end! Everyone please put on your serious faces for some Paris Hilton coverage, TNR style:

Their fame runs in real time and real contrast to the domestic reality of television watchers everywhere. It makes them at once more intimately known and more intimately envied.

Envied? Not sure about that — but "intimately," sure, in a strictly "gagging on Rick Salomon's 9-inch donger" sense.
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