Jakob is a Fameball.

There’s this CNET article with some dumb party gossip from the nyc media event we were at the other night. I introduced my friend Jakob to my friend Lindsay, got distracted and walked away and apparently this is the result. Jakob writes:

“The key phrases in their article are “another reporter pointed out to me” and “if you even care”. So what you’re really getting is secondhand reporting: journalism by someone else, for someone else. The author’s personal convictions have little or nothing to do with what’s written.

Now multiply this instance by every working journalist today. This is why we have Fameballs: individuals whose fame snowballs because journalists cover what they think other people want them to cover.