I happened to hear in passing on the Dan Patrick Show on Monday that the LA cops (America's Most Bent Flics?) asked Rock or his entourage if Rock wanted to file charges against Will Smith. He or his posse, according to the ET commentators Nischelle Turner and Kevin Frazier, reported on the show that Rock declined to file charges.
Normally, I try to avoid banal gossip but I do listen to sports radio occasionally and, on rare occasions, I do enjoy the snark of TMZ. Sports radio, which is one of the few places where one can actually hear intellectual discussion on the media in the US, seems to have also become gossip ridden these days making it a microcosm so much of the US and UK media in these brave new digital world days of our lives.
Speaking of TMZ, that media outlet and others of its ilk, seem to have become practitioners of what is a rarety in the American media these days, investigative journalism. Some, by the way, might find it humourously absurd and ironic that the legacy of the Muckrakers and Woodward and Bernstein seems to live on amost alone in the investigative gossip of the gossip mongerers.
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