Last week Gawker posted a link to Salon’s piece on the end of the Golden Age of Celebrity Gossip.  Part of the end of “the Golden Age” was attributed to people like Janice Min.

So, yesterday a reporter from Gawker was at a local newsstand buying cigarettes and two young girls about eight years old apparently pointed to the Lauren Conrad cover and wanted to buy the mag, but sadly didn’t have enough money. 

(We all know at this point that this cover is completed made-up according to LC herself!)

The Gawker reporter’s conclusion is that Janice knows what she’s doing - because of this focus group of two.  Um, ok? 

Of course Janice knows what she’s doing.  That’s not the issue. 

What’s critical to understand is that this type of cover was developed by the same person who places herself above everyone else in the industry as the arbiter of truth!  

She strives to position US Weekly as the celebrity weekly that is credible.   With this Lauren Conrad story, we once again see that this is not the case.  

As the years go by and we see more of these FAKE US Weekly covers, the celebrity category will continue to erode. 

When a celebrity (who many can’t understand why she’s a celebrity) like Lauren Conrad gives a friendly interview to a magazine she trusts and this cover is the result, readers will ultimately rebel and stop buying this type of crap.

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