Opposite Day for Star magazine is turning into Opposite Year. Or at least Opposite Winter. They and Lies&Style are really making me proud. Incidentally, I read my first ever copy of the British Star magazine, this week; along with the British edition of The National Enquirer, and the shortened OK! USA that comes bundled with its British counterpart. I bought a whole bunch, for the first time in YEARS, for researching new stories, and some American versions came free (I’m totes keeping receipts so I can claim them as a business expense). Some things I noticed 1) 90% of the stories didn’t attempt to be true 2) the same percentage were reports from a ‘source’ rather than a quote/ interview from a celebrity 3) None of them required proof and were vague enough to be passable 4) Some weren’t even original and were c&ps of each other or reports from online sources. It was pretty gruelling. And I won’t be buying them again. But it does make me raise an eyebrow at this story from Star magazine; a not-truth teller.
They’ve diagnosed the twins of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as having Down Syndrome. It’s a pathetic armchair diagnosis, based on some ignorant people allegedly asking ignorant questions and Jolie supposedly becoming ‘defensive.’ Jezebel.com has more: ‘Over the holidays, when the family visited Brad’s parents in Missouri, people wondered if there was something wrong with the twins. It just seemed like something was off. An employee recently voiced concerns, and Angelina freaked out and the person wanted to know if Brad and Angie had looked into the possibility that the twins have a disorder, and Angelina was defensive.’ Jezebel clarifies, ‘Not one source offers a direct quote or statement like: The twins have Down syndrome.’ This is so horrid. I can’t even.
