All The Nooz That's Fit To Print?

Source: NY Times 5/9 Arts p.1 by Critics Notebook, "Portrait of a Party Girl as a Serious Young Actress" byCaryn James

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The NY Times today used roughly one third of a page to expose a 19 year old film actress in a dress easily mistaken for an undergarment except for two pale roses attached to the pink frock she is wearing. It is broad daylight and other people are gathered around her in street clothes not at all like the flimsy garment this "tabloid-ready partying and on screen talent" is wearing. She stares into a fan's digital camera holding an autograph pen. Not news that film actresses are addicted to photo opps. It is news (to me) that the Times would slap a scantily dressed teen on the first page of the Arts section in color without wanting to attract readers who must be dragged into a story by a visual. This is second story in two days about film persons and their off screen behavior somehow having an influence on their box office success. A non-story in my estimation and would be loath to comment on it accept for the fact that the NY Times seems too be doing something similar in its coverage and photo. I do not read the Times to be stopped in my tracks by someone's 19 year old daughter who may be occupying print space just for the effect,but there it is! THE NEW YORK TIMES is fast becoming a noozpaper. The articles's title also borrows from James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" hoping to catch the eye of its novel readers should they be passing by.