You spend enough time sifting through the celebrity and entertainment wires, and you realize three things:
1. Most of the stuff is meaningless fluff (Tom Cruise snapped getting coffee in mom jeans!!!)
2. Positive stories about celebs are usually carefully-managed leaks from handlers and publicists
3. Salacious gossip about certain people seems rather fanciful, without a firm grounding in that slippery thing we call "truth" (Exception: Lohan, Hilton)
Now Gawker has performed an exhaustive autopsy on tabloids to see which ones are the most honest, and whoa: less than ten percent of the cover stories on InTouch, OK!, and Star turned out to be true. Ah, but which ten percent? That's why people keep buying them, perhaps. It's a game. An intellectual exercise. The study is here.
