Well, to put it in a context, I think I'm not the only one who's noticed the way magazines have given up, basically, their covers to celebrity P.R. people who dictate photographers, they dictate what reporters are allowed to report. If the profile is not fawning, that reporter's out on his ear as far as reporting on any other celebrities.

And this particular profile of Angelina Jolie, which called her "the best woman in the world" — sort of epitomized the low point of fawning for access, the pretension of it, with all sort of pseudo-deep-think about the nature of celebrity and how Angelina Jolie is really an underdog and she identifies with the underdog … And what do they get for it? They get Angelina Jolie to pose naked with a sheet so they can put that on the cover. They get basically no information. The fraudulence of it, finally, I don't know.

–Slate columnist Ron Rosenbaum, on the growing trend of magazines sacrificing journalistic autonomy for access [via OnTheMedia]