Media outlets no longer care whether it's tabloid fodder as long as it brings pageviews. The Bieber tale is a kind of media mea culpaThe way down seems now to be as energetically charted as the way up. There is some justice in that. The media inflation of the Justin Bieber bubble is being matched by the determined media deflation,perhaps restoring a certain balance to the universe.
It is hard, though, or to suppose that writers of the current Justin Bieber hosing take this memoir very seriously. It's anti-news news. It's dumb news. It's down-market news. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com