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Us Weekly's Freaking Out That Jon & Kate Are Yesterday's News

Disgrasian | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Schadenfreude, Reality Television, Reality TV, Us Weekly, TV Ratings, Divorce, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, Celebrity Culture, Jon and Kate Ratings, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Tabloids, Jon and Kate Divorce, Jon and Kate, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Media News
Disgrasian

Us Weekly has profited enormously from the Gosselins' marriage failing -- producing six consecutive covers this summer featuring either Jon or Kate -- and they're not quite done feasting off that carcass' bones.

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Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Medical Ethics, Michael Jackson, Dangerous Controlled Substance, Drug Addiction, Roadkill, Physicians, Celebrity Culture, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Doctor Shopping, Beverly Hills, Self-Esteem, Justice Department, Prescription Painkillers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Just Say No, Fame, Opiates, Drug Enforcement Administration, Deepak Chopra, Drug Abuse, Heath Ledger, Narcotics, Pain Medications, Hippocratic Oath, Celebrities, Hollywood, Black Box Warning, Entertainment News
Gary Cohan

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

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Michael Jackson's Death -- What Does it Say About Us?

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Media, Culutre, Twitter, Michael Jackson Death, Celebrity Culture, Pop Culture, Facebook, Michael Jackson Cardiac Arrest, Living News
Soren Gordhamer

Our culture puts celebrities on a pedestal and adores them, we seem to get more satisfaction when they fall -- and the harder the better.

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We Don't Blame Michael Jackson Because We Blame Ourselves

Etan Bednarsh | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bill Simmons, Michael Jackson, Tyzon Zone, Michael Jackson Death, Britney Spears, Celebrity Culture, Dan Quayle, Joh Bobbitt, Jeffrey Dahmer, In Living Color, South Park, Entertainment News
Etan Bednarsh

Yes, it is sad that Jackson died as broken shards of a person, but it's sadder that he was once one beautiful whole who cracked under the pressure of our glare.

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