links for 2008-07-14

• Brad and Angelina's Kids Are Not Worth $20 Million, But Nobody Is Going to Correct You / Jossip
  Because tabloids like people to beleive they spent as much money on the photos as possible, because that makes them seem more valuable, which makes the tabloids seem more valuable. It's a ridiculous vicious cycle of meaningless infotainment.
  (tags: gossip HowGossipSausageIsMade)
• Will the New Yorker give equal time to unfair McCain smears?" asks Eric Zorn
  "Say a cartoon showing him looking about 150 years old and spouting demented non-sequiturs in the middle of a violent temper tantrum while, in the corner, his wife is passed out next to a bottle of pills."
  (tags: interesting funny ChicagoTribune)