{"id":574,"date":"2007-08-28T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2007-08-28T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:17:00","slug":"entertainment-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/08\/entertainment-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>he <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Britney Spears<\/span> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Allure<\/span> story has attracted a fair bit of attention but I was slightly gobsmacked to see this admission in one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/entertainment\/story\/249111.html\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> piece:<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britney, pop star and mother-of-the-year candidate, apparently agreed to pose for the cover of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Allure<\/span> and to sit for an interview with writer Judith Newman.<\/p>\n<p>For four days Newman chased the pop princess around Los Angeles. On the first day Newman was in a cab on the way to an interview location when a last-minute call from Spears\u2019 publicist postponed the interview and re-scheduled it for the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The next day Spears ditched Newman again. And so it went for the frustrated writer. She never did get the cover interview and had to fake her way through a long piece on how she didn\u2019t get the interview.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been there. I once had to fake a story on supermodel Cindy Crawford after her obnoxious publicist ended our interview three minutes after we started.<\/p>\n<p>These fake stories can be fun to write, particularly if you are allowed to vent your hostility toward the interview subject, and the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Allure<\/span> writer did an exceptional job. Her prose wasn\u2019t nearly as angry as mine would have been after four days of trying to nail down the elusive and inconsiderate Britney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the last two paras&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Britney Spears Allure story has attracted a fair bit of attention but I was slightly gobsmacked to see this admission in one comment piece: Britney, pop star and mother-of-the-year candidate, apparently agreed to pose for the cover of Allure and to sit for an interview with writer Judith Newman. For four days Newman chased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[265,120],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-journalism-values","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}