Flip-Flop Flap (Walter Brasch, Counterbias.com)

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Flip-Flop Flap

August 9 2005
Counterbias.com
Walter Brasch


The media have an insatiable appetite to gobble up even the most superficial minutia and spit it out as hard news.

During the first few months of 2005, spread across every daily newspaper, tabloid, and pop culture magazine, discussed endlessly on afternoon talk radio, aired on myriad news and feature TV shows, was the Brad Pitt–Jennifer Aniston break-up. So well known had the media made the TV and film stars that just referring to them as Brad and Jen was enough. Media coverage went into overdrive when Brad and Angelina Jolie starred in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, giving the media enough fodder to scream that not only were these two stars dating but that Angelina may have been the one to be cause of the Brad–Jen break-up. Of course, there was no evidence, but inquiring minds wanted to know.

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