
Among the many issues that Britain’s News of the World scandal is bringing to the forefront is one that’s been debated in journalism circles for decades: should news media outlets pay for scoops and access to sources?

Among the many issues that Britain’s News of the World scandal is bringing to the forefront is one that’s been debated in journalism circles for decades: should news media outlets pay for scoops and access to sources?
Actress Leighton Meester arrives at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on June 5, 2011, in Universal City, Calif.
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(CBS) “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester has filed a lawsuit against her mother, claiming that she took money the actress had sent to her brother and used it for Botox, plastic surgery and hair extensions.
Originally published: August 9, 2011 7:32 PM Updated: August 9, 2011 9:32 PM By RAFER GUZMÁN rafer.guzman@newsday.com
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Charlie Sheen says he and his ex-wife Brooke Mueller are on their way toward “harmony,” Cover Media reports.
The couple, who divorced in May this year, were married in 2008 and have two-year-old twins, Bob and Max. Their relationship has been what Cover Media called “famously tumultuous,” peaking at Sheen’s 2009 arrest at their home in Colorado for assaulting her and threatening her with a knife.
Tony Winner Karen Ziemba, Ellen Dolan, Nicole Lowrance Are Steel Magnolias Beginning Aug. 3 in NJ
by Andrew Gans03 Aug 2011
Cape May Stage presents Robert Harling's heartwarming comedy Steel Magnolias beginning Aug. 3 with an official opening the following evening.
Jordan Strauss/Getty ImagesJenny is so proud of sister Joanne McCarthy, who is playing in the Lingerie Basketball League.
When JoJo McCarthy, sister of actress and 1994 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jenny McCarthy, saw the outfit for the Lingerie Basketball League, her first thought was: “I need to call a trainer and get on ‘Weight Watchers.’”
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Michael Bay had the script incorporating a reference to the old enmity between Russia and America, got digitally created John F Kennedy and Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin.
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Joseph Conrad got it right when he said that gossip was something we all profess to dislike, but secretly enjoy. Truman Capote said that all literature was gossip, and Hugh Leonard went further, saying that people prefer gossip to literature — which explains why sales of ‘Heat’ magazine tend to be higher than, say, Booker-prize winning novels.
For so long the hills of Twitter have been alive with the sound of “bantering” footballers, tub-thumping activists and self-promoting singers/actors/journalists. Men of the cloth have been thin on the ground. The balance shifted a little last week when you, Pope Benedict XVI (@news_va_en), sat down in front of your new iPad and sent the very first papal tweet. marking the launch of the Vatican news website, you typed: “Dear Friends, I just launched http://t.co/fVHpS9y Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! with my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.” And with one click of the “Send” button, Hallelujah!, history had been made.