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Editor
Janice Min says Us Weekly and other gossip publications "feed a public with a seemingly endless appetite for the antics of celebrities." She contends the entertainment industry has replaced politics as the diversion of choice. "We have a war that's produced almost no images of dead Americans. We can see methadone in
Anna Nicole Smith's fridge, but not images of a taxpayer-funded war in Iraq?"
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Editor says most newspapers haven't overplayed recent celeb sagas (ATU)
