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Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Stephen Glass, the former journalist now known as “the fabulist,” claimed he lied for esteem. Then, he wrote a book about it.
If you’ve ever wondered what the consequences could be for lying in a profession like journalism, (wherein honesty and integrity are of utmost value), then you should definitely find some time between those interviews and take a break off of writing, to read the story of Stephen Glass’s sudden sink.
In this novel, appropriately entitled The Fabulist: A Novel of an Ignominious Fall, the Rise to Infamy, and Life After Both, Glass offers a detailed description of his career as a journalist while it lasted, and how his dream come true rapidly became a real-life nightmare. The novel is concise and smooth. He tells the story of his series of unfortunate events very well, partly because he has lived it, but mostly because he’s a spectacular sensationalist.
As I was reading his words, I couldn’t help but doubt their merit. After all, this is the man who fooled thousands, perhaps millions of people into believing his engaging and detailed stories were composed of sheer truth ? when they weren’t. Glass tells his side of the story, making sure to represent the individuals involved, but the others somehow always manage to look bad ? because he’s stretching the truth. The undertone of self-pity makes me sick. There’s something about the manipulative and coy word usage that made me feel uncomfortable while reading it ? like I was being lied to, which I indubitably was. Nonetheless, I kept reading because he trapped me with his seductive style. This, I gather, is why Mr. Glass got away with his deception for so long. He’s just plain-out good. He is the personification of a hoax. He is a conman and despite his attempt to deliver a work of pure nonfiction, he’s wrestling against the inevitable. He is a pathological liar with no ability to grasp reality in its entirety and always applies a spin which works to his benefit. These are harsh words yes, and I commend him for his style as well as imagination, but as an aspiring journalist myself, I cannot condone the lengths he went to (or didn’t go to, as the case so happens to be) to land himself a good story. It’s not only unethical, it’s unacceptable.
Stephen Glass was a 25-year-old rising star at The New Republic, when he fell fast into infamy. It was the summer of 1998 when Glass’ life shattered. He was a young magazine journalist, working for a well-respected social and political commentary publication, with many fans and much acclaim, when a rival magazine told his editor that it suspects one of his stories is fabricated. Glass’ editor investigates, trying to sort of the truth, seeking clarity for the gray areas. Of course, after Glass breakdowns, tired and beat from giving everyone the run around, the truth surfaces ? Stephen Glass is an utter and total fabulist.
He wrote dozens of high-profile articles for several national publications ? it has now been discovered that many of these pieces’ contacts were made up. He has told the media that he made up people, places and events. He made up organizations and companies. He made up quotations. And sometimes, when he was feeling really creative, he decided not to do any real journalism at all, and just produced entire articles with the help of his sick and twisted imagination. He was caught in a constant web of lies, so to cover one lie, he would make up another, then another, and another ? that’s how it rolled out of control. To back up his lies, he resorted to creating fake notes, fake voicemails, fake faxes, and even a fake website. As long as it would make people believe the accusations against him were all a big misunderstanding and therefore deceive his editors, colleagues and reader base, he was fine. So he thought. But the lying caught up to him ? he got what he deserved.
As a journalist, it is important to be educated about people like this who try and beat the system in the media industry so that you can realize that all that stuff your professors tell you about those articles and find some time. But also, as a citizen, it is imperative that you accept the fact that the old clich? is true ? you can’t believe everything. This novel will teach you to ask questions, doubt the media (as much as I hate to say it for I too am part of this communication elite), and to never, ever 100% believe what you read. Still, if you enjoy reading about other people’s misfortunes, want a reality check with regard to how you’re being lied to, and don’t mind trying to figure out the inner workings of the mind of an frantic fraud, go ahead. But if you want an autobiographical tale of the life and times of a journalist, don’t bother with this.
Just remember, once a liar, always a liar?
Author: Stephen Glass
Genre: Nonfiction/Autobiography (disputable)
